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Golden Civic Foundation Inc

To invest in the economic and cultural vitality of the golden community.

$176k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$86k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Golden Civic Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$86k57%
FY20236$158k33%
FY20225$155k20%
FY20218$73k63%
FY20207$57k71%
FY20193$34k33%
FY20186$133k33%
FY20175$58kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$304kFood & Nutrition$125kEducation$96kHuman Services$91kCommunity Improvement$69kCrime & Legal$18kAnimals$15kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Golden Pantry and Thrift Inc$138,650716%
Foothills Art Center Inc$108,29133%
The Morrison Theater Company$94,23936%
Golden High School Alumni Foundation Inc$76,750168%
Golden Backpack Program Inc$60,75036%
Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation Inc$35,00021%
Golden History Museum & Park$30,0002n/a
City of Golden Public Art Commission$26,4622n/a
Golden Visitors Center Corporation Dba Golden Welcome Center$25,000323%
Golden Chamber of Commerce$16,23431%
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All grantees of Golden Civic Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Golden Pantry and Thrift Inc$138,650716%
Foothills Art Center Inc$108,29133%
The Morrison Theater Company$94,23936%
Golden High School Alumni Foundation Inc$76,750168%
Golden Backpack Program Inc$60,75036%
Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation Inc$35,00021%
Golden History Museum & Park$30,0002n/a
City of Golden Public Art Commission$26,4622n/a
Golden Visitors Center Corporation Dba Golden Welcome Center$25,000323%
Golden Chamber of Commerce$16,23431%
Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter$15,00020%
American Legion-Taylor Miller Post 21$15,000113%
Neighborhood Rehab Project$14,00024%
Victim Outreach Inc$13,50011%
Red Rocks Community College Foundation$12,00021%
The Salvation Army$9,2591n/a
Golden History Museums$9,0001n/a
Rotary Club of Golden Co$7,87516%
GoFarm$7,50011%
Jeffco Public Schools$7,5001n/a
Friends of Dinosaur Ridge$7,50010%
Porchlight a Family Justice Center$7,50011%
American Mountaineering Museum$5,4491n/a
The Colorado Mountain Club$5,44910%
Family Tree Inc$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Golden Civic Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGolden Pantry and Thrift Inc: $138,650 over 7y, 16% of budgetFoothills Art Center Inc: $108,291 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Morrison Theater Company: $94,239 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetGolden High School Alumni Foundation Inc: $76,750 over 1y, 68% of budgetGolden Backpack Program Inc: $60,750 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetColorado Railroad Historical Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGolden Visitors Center Corporation Dba Golden Welcome Center: $25,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetGolden Chamber of Commerce: $16,234 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Legion-Taylor Miller Post 21: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNeighborhood Rehab Project: $14,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetVictim Outreach Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRed Rocks Community College Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRotary Club of Golden Co: $7,875 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGoFarm: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Dinosaur Ridge: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPorchlight a Family Justice Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Colorado Mountain Club: $5,449 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Tree Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO36× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Golden Civic Foundation Inc 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 Golden Civic Foundation Inc

How much does Golden Civic Foundation Inc give?
Golden Civic Foundation Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $85,900, out of $175,550 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Golden Civic Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (13%).
Who are Golden Civic Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Golden Pantry and Thrift Inc ($139k), Foothills Art Center Inc ($108k), The Morrison Theater Company ($94k).
Does Golden Civic Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Golden Civic Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is Golden Civic Foundation Inc based?
Golden Civic Foundation Inc is based in CO.

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 25 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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