· Public charity
Denver Civic Ventures Inc
Dcv is a charitable public purpose organization, which mobilizes resources to implement civic design and development initiatives and to activate the downtown denver public realm.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $327k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $54,177 |
| HAI SUNG CHUNG DBA CHUNG BROS INC | $17,000 |
| PEAKVOLT RENTALS LLC | $17,000 |
| EARL'S RESTAURANT INC | $17,000 |
| CHARMAINE BILLINSLEY DBA THE MUSEUM | $17,000 |
| KYOTO RAMEN INC | $17,000 |
| GRILL EM' HOLDINGS LLC | $17,000 |
| DREAM KANG LLC DBA POKE WORLD | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,545 |
| BLAKE STREET WAYFARER LLC DBA LITTL | $15,000 |
| TSCANY CAF INC | $15,000 |
| CASSANDRA ALLEN DBA VINTAGE HANBAGS | $15,000 |
| CHOLON HOLDING LLC | $15,000 |
| ZHIJIAN LIU DBA DOWNTOWN 1617 LLC | $15,000 |
| SALAD COLLECTIVE LLC | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Denver Civic Ventures Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 53%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSTAN'S DOWNTOWN BARBERS LLC3× · 2021–2025 · $42k
- KRKYOTO RAMEN INC2× · 2021–2025 · $25k
- SISADYTA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $23k
Funded once
- 1A14TH AND COURT LLCone grant, 2024 · $182k
- CDCOLORADO DEPARTMENT OF STATEone grant, 2024 · $170k
- OLONE LINCOLN PARK CONDO ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $56k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 139 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Restaurant Foundation · Dreamspring
How this is measured
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