Colorado · Public charity
Giving Brands
The mission is to inspire local men and women, who are committed to making a difference in their communities. The mission is to reach out and help local charities with the funds they need to do the amazing work they are doing in their community. Collectively, the mission can make a powerful inpact to the charitable community by finding…
- $367k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $246k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $64k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Giving Brands funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $246k | 96% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $143k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $233k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $235k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $314k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $168k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Healing Centers | $28,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Ranch Hands Rescue | $26,300 | 1 | 3% |
| Denton Freedom House | $26,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Journey to a Dream Foundation | $26,100 | 1 | n/a |
| My Chosen Ones Inc | $26,000 | 1 | 12% |
| New Beginnings Church | $26,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Abilities of North Texas Inc | $25,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Community Food Share Inc | $21,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Hoopsters Classic Association DBA Action Matters | $19,200 | 1 | 5% |
| Comstock Community Center Inc | $18,700 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 122 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Giving Brands supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Brooks Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Giving Brands 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.
About Giving Brands
- How much does Giving Brands give?
- Giving Brands reported 27 itemized grants totaling $245,750, out of $366,883 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Giving Brands fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (22%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Giving Brands's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Healing Centers ($29k), Ranch Hands Rescue ($26k), Denton Freedom House ($26k).
- Does Giving Brands fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Giving Brands?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation.
- Where is Giving Brands based?
- Giving Brands is based in CO.
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