How much did GIVING BRANDS grant in FY2024?

Human Services$329kHealth$118kFood & Nutrition$80kYouth Development$58kCommunity Improvement$56kRecreation & Sports$50kEducation$47kCrime & Legal$32kPhilanthropy$29kOther$317k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

denverendincomedisabilitiescancercounselingskills job

2021

morristown medicalvisioncreatingchangerelationshipsaacornadults developmental

2022

honoringjackson holewildernessgirlscareboulderdown syndrome

2023

growbuildingveterans veteranskalamazoo soccerrecreationdementiathrive

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $100k
$10k–50k3 grants · $43k

$6,450

Median grant

States reached

$37k

Total assets

Largest grants

MISSIONAL CHAPLAINS$17,300
HOPE 4 YOUTH CANCER FOUNDATIO$15,800
I LOVE LEOs$10,100
ALPHA CENTER$8,350
HOPE HOUSE COLORADO$7,850
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER$7,400
JACKSON FOOD CUPBOARD$7,250
TETON FREE CLINIC$6,900
PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY$6,450
TETON JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION$6,450
COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS$6,450
HOLE FOOD REUSE$6,400
ROTARY CLUB OF BROOMFIELD$6,300
OUTREACH FORT COLLINGS$6,300
FIRST DESCENTS$6,300

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center

Axis health system (ahs) is the designated community mental health center, and a licensed substance use provider and a hrsa community health centers (fqhc) providing integrated primary care including oral health care. ahs offers a wide…

Health

Family Housing Network of Fort Collins

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. They offer a range of programs to serve families on the continuum from…

Human Services

Vail Valley Cares

Vail Valley Cares is an ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to sharing the love of God by helping meet the local communitys needs. The organization owns and operates two Thrift stores in Eagle County, Colorado. All goods are…

Human Services

Valley Life for All

Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.

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The Denver Homeless Voice

The Denver VOICE employs individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty in the Denver area through the production and sale of the Denver VOICE, a monthly newspaper publication that helps to break down barriers and misconceptions about…

Arts & Culture

Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health

The Colorado Health Foundation

Health

Caring Foundation of Wyoming

Human Services

Peak Hope Foundation

Philanthropy

Harvest of Hope Pantry

Harvest of hope pantry's mission is to provide healthy supplemental food to boulder families and individuals in need of food assistance within a safe, welcoming and non-judgemental environment.

Food & Nutrition

Homeless Outreach Providing

The mission of the organization is to provide life-sustaining services and programsfocusing on dignity, empowerment and self-sufficiency. the organization provides the onlyyear-round overnight service center for the homeless community in…

Human Services

Colorado Wellness Center for Girls

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Morristown Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/100

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,465

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

91 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)

86/91

Grantees still filing

76/91

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$329,000Other$426,200Health$118,150Food & Nutrition$79,700Youth Development$57,550Community Improvement$55,500Recreation & Sports$50,250

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO39.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family 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 GIVING BRANDS 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: LOUISVILLE RISING.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 851155287 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 LOUISVILLE RISING, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Giving Brands?

Find your warmest path to Giving Brands 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.

GIVING BRANDS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

91 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Giving Brands?

More from the funding graph

GIVING BRANDS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

91 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Giving Brands?

More from the funding graph