· Private foundation
Desiderata Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| PROJECT OUR TOWN | $2,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $1,500 |
| ELIC | $1,500 |
| PARKER TASK FORCE | $1,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $1,500 |
| EASTERSEALS | $1,000 |
| STEP DENVER | $1,000 |
| EASTERSEALS OF COLORADO | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $500 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS | $400 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $300 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +5%
- BEBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
- SDStep Denver4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- MUMAUI UNITED WAYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +188%
- S6SHIELD 616 INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -29%
- TGTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +98%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OUR TOWN ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
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 · Libertygives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Desiderata Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desiderata Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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