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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.

$389k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAK BREAD$65,000
LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$60,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRIDGE HOUSE: $50k → 12%GIVING HEART ENGLEWOOD: $8k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN DBA CAFE 180: $25k → 8%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.
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 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
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Butte Rescue Mission

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…

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3
Network Ministries

Provide charitable services to homeless including food coffee and supplies resource navigation and education and advocacy.

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4
Urban Outreach Denver

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.

Human Services
5
Restoration Outreach Programs

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Lazarus Gate

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.

Human Services
7
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
8
Work Options for Women Dba Work Options

Work options for women helps people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary training.

Religion
9
Step Denver

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…

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10
Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen

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.

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11
Urban Peak Denver

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Kitchen One 4 One

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement 5280; 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.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Break Bread: $65,000 · OtherBreak BreadMISSION HILLS CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherMISSION HILLS CHURCHBridge House: $50,000 · Human ServicesBridge HouseOne Good Turn: $25,000 · Human ServicesOne Good TurnGIVING HEART ENGLEWOOD: $8,050 · Human ServicesGIVING HEART ENGLEWOODFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $60,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENT…THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPRO…MOVEMENT 5280: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMOVEMENT 5280DRY BONES DENVER: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterDRY BONES DENVERLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLETON PUBLIC …ARAPAHOE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 · HealthNORTH LITTLETON PROMISE: $8,050 · Youth Development
Other$95,000Human Services$83,050Community Improvement$68,000Housing & Shelter$65,000Philanthropy$60,000Health$10,000Youth Development$8,050

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 budgetLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT 5280: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetOne Good Turn: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDRY BONES DENVER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARAPAHOE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LITTLETON PROMISE: $8,050 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIVING HEART ENGLEWOOD: $8,050 over 1y, 22% 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.

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 Founda…The Telluray Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gracefull Foundation?

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

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