· Public charity
Fire Foundation of Denver
Our mission is to champion the inclusion of students with disabilities in Catholic schools by providing educational resources, fundraising and promoting a culture of belonging.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $502,182 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $566,682 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $382k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saint Mary's Catholic Church | $115,000 |
| Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church | $44,334 |
| Blessed Pro Miguel Catholic Academy | $44,333 |
| Holy Family High School | $43,000 |
| Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church | $40,000 |
| Saint Mary's Catholic Church | $35,000 |
| Annunciation Catholic Church | $34,000 |
| Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church | $30,000 |
| Most Precious Blood Catholic Church | $26,000 |
| Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church | $25,000 |
| Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish | $20,000 |
| Archdiocese of Denver | $20,000 |
| Nativity of our Lord Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Wellspring Catholic Academy at Saint Bernadette's | $5,515 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Fire Foundation of Denver’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
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
- SMST MARY CATHOLIC PARISH IN LITTLETON3× · 2022–2024 · $211k
- SHSACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH3× · 2022–2024 · $134k
- SJST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC PARISH IN LOVELAND2× · 2023–2024 · $87k
Funded once
- SRST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVERone grant, 2024 · $44k
- HFHOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $43k
- OLOUR LADY OF LORETO CATHOLIC PARISH IN FOXFIELDone grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2024.
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 2022–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado Inc · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Mile High United Way Inc · The Martin Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.