· Private foundation
Denver Kiwanis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Denver Kiwanis Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Colorado Gives Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Denver Kiwanis Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $46k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN DOOR YOUTH GANG ALTERNATIVE | $9,000 |
| SWEET DREAM IN A BAG | $4,500 |
| SECOND WIND FUND | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF PAHA | $3,000 |
| GRIFFITH CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| A PRECIOUS CHILD | $2,500 |
| ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| LISTEN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DENVER EAST HIGH RUGBY | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF DENVER | $2,500 |
| MOUNT SAINT VINCENT | $2,000 |
| DENVER SANTA CLAUS SHOP | $2,000 |
| LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SCHOLARS UNLIMITED | $1,650 |
| ROCKY MT DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 61% of Denver Kiwanis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGRIFFITH CENTERS7× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +24%
- SWSECOND WIND FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +249%
- SDSWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BRBULLYING RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +253%
- HGHIGHER GROUND YOUTH CHALLENGEone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue 0%
- KMKepner Middle Schoolone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
Support education and advocacy for LGBTQ + people and families
The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…
Youth counseling and mentoring.
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.
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
Heart & hand center is dedicated to a world with no opportunity gap. by creating a nurturing community, heart & hand empowers all young people to realize their potential.
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
Elevating Connections is dedicated to building sustained positive relationships for current & former youth in foster care-including those experiencing sibling separation-to find their voice & build meaningful community connections.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 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.
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR YOUTH GANG ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PAHA ↗
- Who funds SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC ↗
- Who funds LISTEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BULLYING RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARM ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Denver Kiwanis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denver Kiwanis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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