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Giving Generations Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HOUSED WORKING & HEALTHY | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ARVADA INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| COLORADO SUCCEEDS | $7,500 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $5,263 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| ACACIA FRATERNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NURTURING NEWBORNS | $2,500 |
| BARTLETT ARBORETUM AND GARDENS | $1,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $500 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $95 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +79%
- CSColorado Succeeds8× · 2018–2025 · $101k · revenue +119%
- PRProject Restart Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +437%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +54%
- JNJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (FBO ARAVA INSTITUTE)one grant, 2017 · $9k
- GFGOLF FORE AFRICA INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -92%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…
Better leaders create a better colorado. through immersive programs, civic engagement, and lifelong connection, the leadership foundation helps people and businesses unlock their potential and use it to drive meaningful change. we develop…
Endeavor colorado is a not-for-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in colorado to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region. high-impact…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Every child deserves a great educator. pebc works across the nation to prepare outstanding new teachers, help practicing teachers and leaders become exceptional, and shape systems and policies in order to foster vibrant growth and lasting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nurturing Newborns. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Succeeds ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Restart Inc ↗
- Who funds NPX CHARITABLE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SparkHope Automotive ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Mile High Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds Compass Academy ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURING NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY BUILDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEAF OVERCOMING VIOLENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT - D O V E ↗
- Who funds The YESS Institute ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 organization Giving Generations Foundation 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.
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 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.
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