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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.

$567k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$926kReligion$40k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $502,182, the rows itemized in this filing. The $566,682 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $382k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Archdiocese of Denver$20,000
Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish$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
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Nativity of our Lord Catholic Church: $10k → 5%Wellspring Catholic Academy at Saint Bernadette's: $25k → 7%Saint Mary's Catholic Church: $115k → 8%Saint Mary's Catholic Church: $35k → 9%Blessed Pro Miguel Catholic Academy: $44k → 10%Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church: $57k → 11%Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church: $25k → 12%Annunciation Catholic Church: $34k → 12%Holy Family High School: $43k → 5%Wellspring Catholic Academy at Saint Bernadette's: $6k → 7%Saint Mary's Catholic Church: $70k → 8%Saint Mary's Catholic Church: $15k → 9%Blessed Pro Miguel Catholic Academy: $35k → 10%Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church: $30k → 11%Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church: $24k → 12%Annunciation Catholic Church: $32k → 12%Saint Mary's Catholic Church: $26k → 8%Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church: $20k → 12%Most Precious Blood Catholic Church: $26k → 12%Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish: $20k → 8%Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church: $49k → 12%Most Precious Blood Catholic Church: $26k → 12%Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church: $45k → 12%Archdiocese of Denver: $20k → 12%Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church: $40k → 12%Archdiocese of Denver: $20k → 12%Archdiocese of Denver: $20k → 12%Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church: $10k → 12%Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church: $44k → 12%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Fire Foundation of Denver’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Fire Foundation of Denverlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$838k · 10 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$838k
$127k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SM
    ST MARY CATHOLIC PARISH IN LITTLETON
    3× · 2022–2024 · $211k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $134k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC PARISH IN LOVELAND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $87k

Funded once

  • SR
    ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVER
    one grant, 2024 · $44k
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $43k
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF LORETO CATHOLIC PARISH IN FOXFIELD
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
05the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2022 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARY CATHOLIC PARISH IN LITTLETON: $210,894 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC PARISH IN LITTLETONSACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH: $133,524 · OtherSACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISHST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC PARISH IN LOVELAND: $87,400 · OtherST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC PARISH IN LOVELANDBL MIGUEL PRO CATHOLIC ACADEMYINC: $79,333 · OtherBL MIGUEL PRO CATHOLIC ACADEMYINCST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC PARISH IN LONGMONT: $69,000 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC PARISH IN LONGMONTANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVER: $66,162 · OtherANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVERARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $60,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF DENVERMOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVER: $51,560 · OtherMOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVERST MARYS CATHOLIC PARISH IN GREELY: $49,800 · OtherST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC PARISH IN DENVER: $44,334 · OtherHOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $43,000 · Other+4 more: $70,515 · Other+4 more
Other$965,522

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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.

Seeds of Hope of Nort…The Catholic Foundati…Mile High United Way …The Martin Family Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado IncCO37× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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