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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Denver Broncos Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 164 grants below total $5,229,139 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,028,167 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $799,028 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $324k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | $534,633 |
| Caf Momentum Denver Corporation | $250,000 |
| Momentum Advisory Collective | $250,000 |
| KABOOM | $175,000 |
| Second Wind Fund Inc | $150,000 |
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | $150,000 |
| Aurora Public Schools Foundation | $100,000 |
| City Year Inc | $100,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $100,000 |
| Colorado UpLift | $100,000 |
| Mizel Institute | $100,000 |
| Playworks Education Energized | $100,000 |
| Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver | $75,000 |
| Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc | $75,000 |
| Out Teach | $75,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SWSECOND WIND FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +35%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +16%
- CUCOLORADO UPLIFT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $106k
- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +9%
- PDPlayworks Denverone grant, 2017 · $66k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…
Youth counseling and mentoring.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Through high caliber professional development and hands-on learning in a prodigy enterprise, youth from low-income communities in denver build skills, social capital and understanding for success in the new economy.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart and Hand Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
193 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 193 of the 279 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM DENVER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds Aurora Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE OF SPORT ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PAVE INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR ONE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER HYBRID COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Denver Broncos Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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