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Denver Post Community Foundation

To improve and enrich life through support of programs that benefit children, the arts, literature and education, and the provision of basic human services.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$4.0MHuman Services$2.8MHealth$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEducation$785kCommunity Improvement$480kPhilanthropy$209kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 55 grants below total $1,630,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,669,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $406k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Denver Kids Inc$140,000
Tennyson Center for Children$130,000
Colorado UpLift$85,000
Griffith Centers for Children Inc$50,500
Food Bank of the Rockies$40,000
Colorado Dream Foundation$39,500
Project Angel Heart$35,000
YESS Institute$35,000
Colorado Youth for a Change$34,500
Save Our Youth$34,500
Kids in Need of Dentistry$34,500
We Don't Waste$30,000
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch$30,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver$30,000
Kids First Health Care$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Family Tree Inc: $40k → 7%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $172k → 12%Family Tree Inc: $30k → 7%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $140k → 12%Family Tree Inc: $30k → 7%Tennyson Center for Children: $130k → 12%Family Tree Inc: $30k → 7%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $125k → 12%Family Tree Inc: $25k → 7%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $125k → 12%Family Tree Inc: $25k → 7%Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home: $80k → 12%Attention Inc: $25k → 12%Attention Inc: $20k → 12%Attention Inc: $20k → 12%Attention Inc: $20k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $20k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $20k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $20k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $20k → 12%Jewish Community Center: $25k → 12%Jewish Community Center: $25k → 12%Jewish Community Center: $25k → 12%Jewish Community Center: $25k → 12%Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $40k → 12%Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $25k → 12%Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $25k → 12%Catholic Charities: $35k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $50k → 12%Catholic Charities: $30k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $50k → 12%Catholic Charities: $30k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $40k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $40k → 12%Catholic Charities: $30k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $30k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $30k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $29k → 12%A Little Help: $25k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services: $25k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services: $25k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services: $25k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $40k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $40k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $40k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $25k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $25k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 75 repeat orgs$609k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
17

Total granted

$13M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
    8× · 2018–2025 · $945k · revenue +33%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $340k · revenue +68%
  • TY
    The YESS Institute
    7× · 2019–2025 · $325k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MD
    METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +142%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • DM
    DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -6%

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.

1
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
3
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
4
Denver Police Activities League Inc

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.

Youth Development
5
Denver Area Youth Services

To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.

Human Services
6
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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7
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
8
Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

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9
Denver Hybrid College

To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.

Education
10
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
11
The Attainment Network

The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.

Education
12
Invest in Kids

Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Systems Infrastructu…Affordable Housing Developm…Affordable Housing Developm…Western Land ConservationInternational Education Acc…K-12 Schools and Early Educ…Arts, Culture & Community D…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr12%41%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr12%41%35–55yr15%17%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/97
the rest of the field
13%
1,267/9,521

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.

04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/91
Grantees still filing
67/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME — $772,000 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CH…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $284,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE …DENVER RESCUE MISSION — $195,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSIONWARREN VILLAGE INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INCFAMILY TREE INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $160,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $150,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & C…Colorado Coalition for the Homeless — $145,000 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for…MILE HIGH MINISTRIES — $110,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER — $90,000 · Human Services+8 more — $285,000 · Human Services+8 moreVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH — $295,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRAN…COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION — $289,500 · OtherCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATIONROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER — $255,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS C…METRO CARING — $200,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $195,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $177,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $175,000 · OtherPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $280,000 · OtherPROJECT ANGEL HEARTThe YESS Institute — $325,000 · OtherThe YESS InstituteSAVE OUR YOUTH INC — $189,500 · Other+28 more — $1,819,000 · Other+28 moreDENVER KIDS INC — $945,000 · EducationDENVER KIDS INCCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $220,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT …Children's Literacy Center Inc — $140,000 · EducationChildren's Liter…SECOND WIND FUND INC — $129,500 · EducationSECOND WIND FUND…DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSH…REGIS UNIVERSITY — $115,000 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSITYREADING PARTNERS — $95,000 · EducationSUMMER SCHOLARS — $70,000 · Education+3 more — $120,000 · Education+3 moreChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $315,000 · HealthChildren's Hosp…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $250,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH…KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $239,500 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF…Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $230,000 · HealthRocky Mountain …KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE — $210,000 · HealthKIDS FIRST HEAL…DOCTORS CARE — $134,500 · HealthDOCTORS CARECOLORADO HEALTH NETWORK INC — $105,000 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH…DENTAL AID — $105,000 · HealthDENTAL AIDGRIFFITH CENTERS — $90,500 · HealthINNER CITY HEALTH CENTER — $85,000 · Health+2 more — $30,000 · HealthFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $340,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK…HUNGER FREE COLORADO — $255,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FR…WEDONTWASTE INC — $245,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWAS…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $230,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY…FOOD FOR HOPE — $69,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR …BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $185,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DELORES PROJECT — $180,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PEAK DENVER — $175,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterACCESS HOUSING OF ADAMS COUNTY INC — $65,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $224,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $189,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentDENVER YOUTH PROGRAM — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $21,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$2,666,000Other$4,200,000Education$1,959,500Health$1,794,500Food & Nutrition$1,139,500Housing & Shelter$850,000Youth Development$620,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDENVER KIDS INC — $945,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME — $772,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $340,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe YESS Institute — $325,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $315,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION — $289,500 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $284,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $280,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER — $255,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $255,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $250,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC — $245,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $239,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $230,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $230,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $224,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $220,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE — $210,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMETRO CARING — $200,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $195,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $190,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH INC — $189,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC — $189,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $185,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT — $180,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $177,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER — $175,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $160,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Literacy Center Inc — $140,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC — $134,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDOCTORS CARE — $134,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $134,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $133,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC — $129,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES — $125,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $125,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY — $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $110,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $110,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES — $110,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH NETWORK INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds The YESS Institute ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds METRO CARING ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DELORES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Coalition for the Homeless ↗
  • Who funds Children's Literacy Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS CARE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…Schlessman Foundation…The Denver Children's…Hill Foundation Wells…Caring for Colorado F…Anschutz Family Found…The Anschutz Foundati…Rose Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO89.1× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Denver Children's Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Rose 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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Denver Post Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Denver Post Community 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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