Colorado · Community foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 62
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Denver Post Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $1.6M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $1.5M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $1.6M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $1.8M | 2% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $1.4M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $1.7M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $1.9M | 96% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Kids Inc | $945,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home | $772,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $340,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The YESS Institute | $325,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $315,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America Colorado Branch | $295,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Colorado Dream Foundation | $289,500 | 8 | 5% |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $284,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Project Angel Heart | $280,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Hunger Free Colorado | $255,000 | 7 | 7% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Denver Post Community Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Denver Post Community Foundation
- How much does Denver Post Community Foundation give?
- Denver Post Community Foundation reported 55 itemized grants totaling $1,630,000, out of $1,669,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Denver Post Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Human Services (21%), Health (15%).
- Who are Denver Post Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Kids Inc ($945k), Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home ($772k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($340k).
- Does Denver Post Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Denver Post Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Denver Post Community Foundation based?
- Denver Post Community Foundation is based in CO.
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