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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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$383kInternational$96kCommunity Improvement$81kHealth$79kHousing & Shelter$57kPhilanthropy$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kHuman Services$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$5,263
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$35,000
HOUSED WORKING & HEALTHY$15,000
FRIENDS OF ARVADA INSTITUTE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$7,500
COLORADO SUCCEEDS$7,500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$7,500
CSU FOUNDATION$5,263
ACACIA FRATERNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
NURTURING NEWBORNS$2,500
BARTLETT ARBORETUM AND GARDENS$1,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$500
DENVER ART MUSEUM$95
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NPX CHARITABLE INC: $25k → 10%CHILD AND MIGRANT SERVICES INC: $500 → 11%NPX CHARITABLE INC: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%DEAF OVERCOMING VIOLENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT: $2k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $200 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%NURTURING NEWBORNS: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%NURTURING NEWBORNS: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $500 → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$699k · 26 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$699k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

77%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +79%
  • CS
    Colorado Succeeds
    8× · 2018–2025 · $101k · revenue +119%
  • PR
    Project Restart Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +437%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +54%
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (FBO ARAVA INSTITUTE)
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • GF
    GOLF FORE AFRICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -92%
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
Denver Scholarship Foundation

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…

Education
2
Careerwise Colorado

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…

Education
3
Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
4
Endeavor Colorado

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…

Community Improvement
5
Aia Colorado

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…

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6
Colorado Dream Foundation

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…

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7
University of Denver

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…

Education
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Impact Development Fund

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Education Commission of the States

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…

Education
12
Public Education & Business Coalition

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $110,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONColorado Succeeds: $100,629 · EducationColorado SucceedsCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $67,204 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $15,000 · Education+5 more: $15,300 · EducationALZHEIMERS ASSN: $78,056 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSNCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $42,140 · OtherCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $23,200 · OtherSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERSUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISACACIA FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherACACIA FRATERNITY FOUNDATIONDCPA FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Other+26 more: $86,618 · Other+26 moreNPX CHARITABLE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNPX CHARITABL…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $43,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…SparkHope Automotive: $10,200 · Human ServicesSparkHope Aut…NURTURING NEWBORNS: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $85,664 · InternationalJEWISH NAT…Project Restart Inc: $57,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMile High Workshop Inc: $8,500 · EmploymentWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $1,000 · Employment
Education$308,383Other$318,514Human Services$111,700International$85,664Housing & Shelter$57,000Philanthropy$21,500Employment$9,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $110,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $100,629 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $85,664 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $67,204 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProject Restart Inc: $57,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetNPX CHARITABLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $42,140 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $10,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMile High Workshop Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCompass Academy: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL SISTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNURTURING NEWBORNS: $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,395 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY BUILDERS ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDenver Architecture Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,793 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEAF OVERCOMING VIOLENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT - D O V E: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe YESS Institute: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA PLAZA: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALL TALES RANCH: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $170 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 Denver Architecture Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEAF OVERCOMING VIOLENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT - D O V E ↗
  • Who funds The YESS Institute ↗

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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…Gates Family Foundati…Daniels FundMile High United Way …The Colorado Health F…The Women's Foundatio…The Anschutz Foundati…Western Union Foundat…Anschutz Family Found…Xcel Energy Foundation
The Denver FoundationCO34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Giving Generations Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giving Generations Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    17report 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 Giving Generations Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Giving Generations Foundation 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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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