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Denver Medical Society Foundation at a glance

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Denver Medical Society 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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$132kHousing & Shelter$25kArts & Culture$3kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$797k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$7,500
EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,800
ZENDO PROJECT$2,500
DMS JOY IN MEDICINE$1,500
DMS PHYSICIAN SUICIDE AWARENESS$1,000
DENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ZENDO PROJECT: $3k → 11%ARAPAHOE-DOUGLAS-ELBERT: $500 → 8%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $13k → 10%COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 12%PROJECT CURE: $10k → 8%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $8k → 10%DENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 12%PROJECT CURE: $2k → 8%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $7k → 10%DENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 12%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $7k → 10%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 12%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $7k → 10%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 12%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $5k → 10%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS- STOUT STREET CLINIC OPERATIONS: $5k → 12%EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS: $500 → 10%STOUT STREET CLINIC: $5k → 12%STOUT STREET CLINIC: $5k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 12%TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 12%TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 12%TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $3k → 12%DMS JOY IN MEDICINE: $2k → 12%DMS PHYSICIAN SUICIDE AWARENESS: $1k → 12%DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%COLORADO PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAM: $6k → 12%COLORADO PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAM: $6k → 12%COLORADO PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAM: $5k → 12%DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%COLORADO PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAM: $500 → 12%LEVITT PAVILLION: $3k → 12%DENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$146k · 9 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$146k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing
    7× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +14%
  • CP
    Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation
    4× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +21%
  • LC
    LA CLINICA TEPEYAC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CM
    COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • AM
    AURORA-ADAMS MEDIAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Colorado Health Institute
Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Boulder County Medical Society

To improve the health of the Boulder community, enhance the education, harmony and welfare of our Boulder County Medical Society (BCMS) members, and promote the science and art of medicine in Boulder County.

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4
Colorado Public Health Association

We are building on a public health movement together with our partners. colorado public health associations (cpha) mission is to educate, develop, and galvanize the colorado public health community. cphas activities are carried out by its…

Health
5
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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6
Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Membership education/promote child health

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7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Colorado West Healthcare System

The mission of colorado west healthcare system and community hospital is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

Health
9
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
10
Colorado Veterinary Medical Association

To advance veterinary medicine.

—
11
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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12
Clinica Colorado

To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Zendo Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing: $46,700 · HealthRocky Mountain Youth Medical and NursingColorado Physician Health Program Corporation: $17,900 · HealthColorado Physician Health Program CorporationLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $17,500 · HealthLA CLINICA TEPEYACBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION+1 more: $2,500 · HealthCOLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $17,200 · OtherCOLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESSDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONCOLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · OtherCOLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS- STOUT STREET CLINIC OPERATIONS: $7,500 · OtherCOLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS- STOUT STREET…DENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,800 · Other+5 more: $4,500 · Other+5 more
Health$96,100Other$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing: $46,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Physician Health Program Corporation: $17,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetZendo Project Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation ↗
  • Who funds LA CLINICA TEPEYAC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Zendo Project Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Denver Medical Society Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denver Medical Society Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Denver Medical Society Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Denver Medical Society Foundation 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.

    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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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