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Denver Research Institute

The DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE was established for the purpose of providing medical research and educational programs related to advancing the research mission of the veterans affairs medical center in denver, co.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$15MEducation$277k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $141k
$140,562
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$140,562
UT MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON$21,900
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $65k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $434k → 22%SDSU RESEARCH FOUND: $65k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $213k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY: $86k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $84k → 19%PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $141k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $403k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ: $282k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $576k → 12%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $76k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $212k → 9%GENEVA FOUNDATION: $267k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $245k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CTR: $230k → 23%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $216k → 8%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $844k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $71k → 15%ROBLEY REX VA MEDICAL CENTER: $92k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $376k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $185k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY: $56k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $68k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $380k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ: $174k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $217k → 12%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $74k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $133k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $176k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CTR: $92k → 23%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $82k → 8%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $482k → 8%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $504k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $231k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $151k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $336k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ: $102k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $201k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $115k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $143k → 22%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $165k → 8%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $318k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $124k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $250k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $199k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $63k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $117k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $91k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 22 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$13M
$652k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

32%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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

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EducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • HM
    HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +25%
  • UO
    University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $917k · revenue +43%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $549k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • GF
    GENEVA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $267k · revenue +14%
  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $92k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2019 · $89k
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
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
The Cardiovascular Medical Research and Education Fund Inc
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4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
West Virginia University Research Corporation

To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.

Education
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
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Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science

Charles r. drew university of medicine and science is a private non-profit student-centered university that is committed to cultivating diverse health professional leaders who are dedicated to social justice and health equity for…

Education
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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Va Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Association of Suicidology. 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

13 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. 13 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2,176,231 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1,934,107 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $1,480,924 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $909,186 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $449,819 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $421,137 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER: $396,768 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $377,249 · Other+11 more: $1,472,988 · Other+11 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,281,939 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSI…University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $916,819 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky R…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $548,814 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $297,987 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUND…+2 more: $131,210 · EducationHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $1,536,200 · HealthHENRY M JACK…BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $65,172 · Health+2 more: $101,848 · Health+2 moreGENEVA FOUNDATION: $267,326 · Science & TechPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $187,416 · Science & Tech
Other$9,618,409Education$3,176,769Health$1,703,220Science & Tech$454,742

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $1,536,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,281,939 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $916,819 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $548,814 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $297,987 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION: $267,326 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $187,416 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $95,568 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $65,172 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISIANA VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CORPORATION: $58,914 over 2y, 24% of budgetClinical Research Foundation: $54,829 over 1y, 21% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY: $47,019 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $35,642 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Clinical Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗

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.

Trustees of Boston Un…Vanderbilt University…Northwestern Universi…University of Pittsbu…Johns Hopkins Univers…American Heart Associ…Amazonsmile Foundation
Trustees of Boston UniversityMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of Boston University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Northwestern University · University of Pittsburgh · Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 64%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • Boston Va Research Institute Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Portland Va Research Foundation: 34% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Research Institute?

Find your warmest path to Denver Research Institute 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 31 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 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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