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Denver Families for Public Schools Action

To mobilize our community into action in support of a shared vision for a reimagined public education system in denver.

$323k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$300k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$300,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Denver Families for Public Schools Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$300k100%
FY20222$568k100%
FY20201$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Public Benefit$600kEducation$278k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Denver Families for Public Schools$300,000122%
Parents for Great Schools$300,0001n/a
Colorado League of Charter Schools$268,00017%
Denver Commits to Kids$10,00014%

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How do I get to Denver Families for Public Schools Action?

Find your warmest path to Denver Families for Public Schools Action through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Denver Families for Public Schools Action

How much does Denver Families for Public Schools Action give?
Denver Families for Public Schools Action reported 1 itemized grants totaling $300,000, out of $322,605 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Denver Families for Public Schools Action fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (68%), Education (32%).
Who are Denver Families for Public Schools Action's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Denver Families for Public Schools ($300k), Parents for Great Schools ($300k), Colorado League of Charter Schools ($268k).
Does Denver Families for Public Schools Action fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Denver Families for Public Schools Action based?
Denver Families for Public Schools Action is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $25k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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