Colorado · Public charity
Denver Broncos Foundation
The Denver Broncos Foundation is committed to making a positive impact on future generations by creating a "game plan" for life through youth health and wellness initiatives, dynamic in and out of school programming, and access to career pathways.
- $6.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 164
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 115
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 92%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $5.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $534,633
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 115
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 92% of the organizations Denver Broncos Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 144 | $5.0M | 59% |
| FY2023 | 115 | $4.1M | 92% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $417k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $819k | 81% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $340k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $491k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $439k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | $1,008,681 | 3 | 2% |
| Momentum Advisory Collective | $750,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Second Wind Fund Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Playworks Education Energized | $255,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cafe Momentum Denver Corporation | $250,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Uplift Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| City Year Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kaboom Inc | $175,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc | $155,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 215 grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Denver Broncos Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 178 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Daniels Fund · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About Denver Broncos Foundation
- How much does Denver Broncos Foundation give?
- Denver Broncos Foundation reported 164 itemized grants totaling $5,229,139, out of $6,028,167 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 115 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Denver Broncos Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Education (16%), Employment (13%).
- Who are Denver Broncos Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc ($1.0M), Momentum Advisory Collective ($750k), Second Wind Fund Inc ($300k).
- Does Denver Broncos Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Denver Broncos Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Denver Broncos Foundation based?
- Denver Broncos Foundation is based in CO.
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