· Public charity
Gracefull Foundation
Form 990, part iii, line 1 - primary exempt purpose to cultivate a healthier, more connected and stronger community by providing a home in littleton, colorado where people of all backgrounds can gather, eat well and be inspired to give back.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAK BREAD | $65,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $60,000 |
| LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| MOVEMENT 5280 | $50,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| MISSON HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| ONE GOOD TURN DBA CAFE 180 | $25,000 |
| DRY BONES DENVER | $15,000 |
| ARAPAHOE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| GIVING HEART ENGLEWOOD | $8,050 |
| NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE | $8,050 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENT | $8,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% 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.
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.
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
The Butte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in Jesus's name, offering assistance to those facing homelessness by providing food, shelter and clothing to restore individuals and reunite families, empowering them to reintegrate into…
Provide charitable services to homeless including food coffee and supplies resource navigation and education and advocacy.
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Restoration Outreach Programs provides services to homeless, disadvantaged and at-risk individuals and youth, including a food bank, GED training, ESL teaching, after-school tutoring and group youth mentoring programs. ROP provides direct…
Our mission is to offer dignity to our Denver-area neighbors with terminal illness - who lack the shelter of a home - by providing a stable, appropriate environment for hospice agencies to deliver care.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Work options for women helps people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary training.
Step Denver is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to rebuild their lives through Sobriety, Work, Accountability, and Community. The ultimate goal of the organization is to have its…
The mission of manna soup kitchen is to provide, in the spirit of faith and love, nourishing meals and supportive services in an atmosphere of acceptance and caring for those in need.
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
Kitchen One 4 One is organized exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily to feed the homeless and underserved. Kitchen One 4 One operates a food truck that distributes free tacos and soft drinks in Downtown Denver as well as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement 5280 and the most unlike its peers is Break Bread. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 Break Bread ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT 5280 ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds One Good Turn ↗
- Who funds DRY BONES DENVER ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE ↗
- Who funds GIVING HEART ENGLEWOOD ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Telluray Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gracefull 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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