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Foundation 180 at a glance

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Foundation 180

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.

$9.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Foundation 180’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Denver Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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10
’21
8
’22
1
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$13MHuman Services$2.1MEmployment$55kHousing & Shelter$55kFood & Nutrition$40kYouth Development$40kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
  • $250k+1 grant · $9.4M
$9,411,972
Median grant
1
States reached
$477k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Denver Foundation$9,411,972
One Good Turn$97,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Bridge of Hope: $5k → 6%Bridge of Hope: $5k → 6%One Good Turn: $820k → 8%One Good Turn: $570k → 8%One Good Turn: $468k → 8%One Good Turn: $97k → 8%One Good Turn: $75k → 8%Same cafe: $10k → 12%Denver Family Institute: $10k → 12%Same cafe: $5k → 12%Denver Family Institute: $5k → 12%Same cafe: $5k → 12%Denver Family Institute: $5k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 14 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$2.3M
$5k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • OG
    One Good Turn
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +12% · 28% of their budget
  • MC
    METRO CARING
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +69%
  • WO
    WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
2
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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3
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
Denver Rescue Mission

The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.

Human Services
5
Goodwill Industries of Denver

Goodwill's mission is to provide education, career development, and employment opportunities to help coloradans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope through the power of work.

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6
Barton Institute for Community Action

The barton institute supports leaders and their communities who are working to develop and foster places for opportunity, connection, and belonging in metro denver.

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
8
The Women's Bakery Inc

The women's bakery is a social enterprise that empowers women through accredited training, employment, and social programming, and builds bakeries that sell high quality and affordable breads to east african communities.

International
9
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Severe Weather Shelter Network. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DENVER FOUNDATION: $13,361,972 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyOne Good Turn: $2,030,082 · Human ServicesOne Good Turn+3 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesSevere Weather Shelter Network: $25,000 · OtherMETRO CARING: $20,000 · OtherGirls Inc: $20,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity: $20,000 · OtherKARAMA INC: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ACTION: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $20,000 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $20,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$13,411,972Human Services$2,080,082Other$135,000Religion$20,000Youth Development$20,000Employment$20,000

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 budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $13,361,972 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetOne Good Turn: $2,030,082 over 5y, 28% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSevere Weather Shelter Network: $25,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMETRO CARING: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSO ALL MAY EAT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKARAMA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds One Good Turn ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds Severe Weather Shelter Network ↗
  • Who funds METRO CARING ↗
  • Who funds WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds KARAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE 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.

Foundation 180Colorado Gives Founda…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation 180CO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation 180 · Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Foundation 180 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation 180. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

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    How do I get to Foundation 180?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation 180 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 17 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-PF 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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