How much did DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$2.3MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.6MFood & Nutrition$995kHousing & Shelter$725kYouth Development$546kPhilanthropy$374kCommunity Improvement$345kRecreation & Sports$300kOther$2.8M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

arts youthyouth education

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k51 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k4 grants · $415k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

Denver Kids Inc$140,000
Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home$125,000
YESS Institute$75,000
Colorado UpLift$75,000
We Don't Waste$35,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$35,000
Kids in Need of Dentistry$30,000
Kids First Health Care$30,000
I Have A Dream Foundation - Colorado$30,000
Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc$29,000
A Little Help$25,000
National Jewish Health$25,000
Metro Caring$25,000
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$25,000
Food for Hope$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 74 repeat orgs$709k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$659k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+29%

Still filing today

92%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

DK
Denver Kids Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $805k · revenue +33%
FB
Food Bank of the Rockies
7× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +45%
YI
YESS Institute
6× · 2019–2024 · $290k · revenue +37%

Funded once

Colorado Nonprofit Development Centergraduated
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +29%
MD
Metro Denver Homeless Initiativegraduated
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +170%
DM
Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Denver Early Childhood Council

The vision of denver's early childhood council (the "council") is that denver is a community where the diverse needs of all children and their families are supported. the council elevates the early childhood field through innovative and…

Education

Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment

Colorado Legal Services

Provides access to quality civil legal services to as many people in colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Aia Colorado

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…

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Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health

Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health

International School of Denver

To develop conscientious, self-confident, multilingual, and multicultural thinkers.

Education

Denver Children's Choir

To inspire and unite children from diverse backgrounds by fostering harmony in music and in life.

Arts & Culture

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement

Rise Colorado

Work to educate, engage and empower low income families and families of color to end educational inequality in our public school system.

Education

Denver Community Ventures

Promote self-sufficiency and independence for low and moderate income families and individuals.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Regis University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/96

the rest of the field

11%

1,085/9,522

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.

05the grantee network

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/87

Grantees still filing

68/87

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,316,000Other$3,802,500Education$1,610,000Health$1,580,000Food & Nutrition$995,000Housing & Shelter$725,000Youth Development$546,000

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.

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.

The Denver FoundationCO96.2× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation

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 organisation DENVER POST COMMUNITY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Alternatives for Youth.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~26 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841012293 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Alternatives for Youth, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Denver Post Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Denver Post Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Denver Post Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Denver Post Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph