How much did Foundation 180 grant in FY2017?

Foundation 180 reported 15 grants totaling $985,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Foundation 180

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

Foundation 180

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$985k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k12 grants · $60k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$250k+2 grants · $910k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

The Denver Foundation$500,000
One Good Turn$410,000
Contemplative Outreach$15,000
Karama Inc$5,000
Denver Family Institute$5,000
Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation$5,000
Community Foundation of HollandZeeland Area$5,000
Women's Bean Project$5,000
Eckhart Tolle Foundation$5,000
Severe Weather Network$5,000
Center for Action and Contemplation$5,000
Community First Foundation$5,000
Work Options for Women$5,000
Mile High Ministries Inc$5,000
Langham Partnership$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Zen Center of Denver

The purpose of the zen center of denver is to foster the teaching of zen to provide greater harmony and peace in ones own life and that of others, and to provide suitable surroundings in which to carry that out.

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Denver Center for the Performing Arts

We engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre.

Arts & Culture

The Colorado Trust

Philanthropy

The Colorado Health Foundation

Health

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

The Colorado College

To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.

Education

Denver Osteopathic Foundation

Health

Colorado Business Development Foundation

Colorado Business Development Foundation develops and funds small business resources

Philanthropy

JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Western Colorado University

The mission of the foundation is to aid, directly or indirectly, western colorado university in fulfilling its educational purposes

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Denver Botanic Gardens Endowment

Protect the financial security and mission of denver botanic gardens.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Bean Project and the most unlike its peers is One Good Turn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

7/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$505,000Human Services$420,000Other$40,000Religion$10,000Employment$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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.

Foundation 180CO13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation 180 · Colorado Gives Foundation · 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Foundation 180 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: One Good Turn.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272126113 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on One Good Turn, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Foundation 180?

Find your warmest path to Foundation 180 through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Foundation 180

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation 180?

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Foundation 180

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation 180?

More from the funding graph