Colorado · Public charity
Denver Public Schools Foundation
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION is a catalyst for change in dps.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,893,135
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,893,135
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Denver Public Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationRecreation & Sports
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $4.9M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $6.9M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $4.7M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $4.8M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $5.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $6.5M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $7.4M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $6.7M | 0% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$55MRecreation & Sports$6k
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 Public Schools | $54,731,963 | 9 | n/a |
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monarch Montessori of Denver Charter | $52,682 | 1 | 2% |
| Denver Tennis Park | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
About Denver Public Schools Foundation
- How much does Denver Public Schools Foundation give?
- Denver Public Schools Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $4,893,135, out of $5,359,189 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Denver Public Schools Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are Denver Public Schools Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Public Schools ($55M), Denver Scholarship Foundation ($75k), Monarch Montessori of Denver Charter ($53k).
- Does Denver Public Schools Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Denver Public Schools Foundation based?
- Denver Public Schools Foundation is based in CO.
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