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Home Neighborly Service of Denver

Neighborly service is an outreach program to creatively end cycles of poverty and despair in the lives of children and families in the denver metropolitan area and/or the larger community, including nationally or internationally.

$918k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$1.0MReligion$334kArts & Culture$202kRecreation & Sports$191kYouth Development$110kHuman Services$102kEmployment$71kInternational$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $583k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $282k
$21,127
Median grant
9
States reached
$697k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION$107,140
MOHELA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$103,888
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$70,950
5280 GYMNASTICS BOOSTER CLUB$48,821
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER$42,453
ABSOLUTE VELOCITY DANCE$42,165
CSU$41,871
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$36,000
NELNET$33,855
BUILDING STRONG KIDS$28,900
TH TRAINING AND ADVOCACY$27,619
SOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$27,000
RIVERVIEW PLACE LF$27,000
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$26,497
FORGE HIGH SCHOOL$25,627
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CROSSWALK PEOPLE HELPERS: $24k → 11%RIVERVIEW PLACE LF: $27k → 12%CROSSWALK PEOPLE HELPERS: $19k → 11%RIVERVIEW PLACE LF: $26k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 27 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
9

Total granted

$2.0M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+54%

Still filing today

33%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +57%
  • CL
    CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +7%
  • BV
    BOULDER VALLEY HOCKEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • VO
    Various Organizations
    one grant, 2020 · $57k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +76%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
5
University of Sioux Falls

The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Western Athletic Conference

The conference is committed to providing student-athletes an exemplary university experience - both on and off the field of play. with high standards of integrity at the core of our athletic and academic excellences, our goal is to unlock…

Recreation & Sports
8
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
9
Mountain West Conference

To provide administrative support for the thirteen member institutions to strengthen and expand the intercollegiate athletic and academic programs on each campus.

Recreation & Sports
10
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
11
Dunwoody College of Technology

Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…

Education
12
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Th Training and Advocacy. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health CentersYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsSmall Business Development …School Parent OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%11%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr13%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%14%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr13%49%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
13%
4,366/33,372

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.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION — $563,157 · OtherAIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATIONCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH — $201,600 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $121,097 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $99,257 · OtherABSOLUTE VELOCITY DANCE — $89,813 · OtherBUILDING STRONG KIDS INC — $89,400 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $76,036 · Other5280 GYMNASTIC BOOSTERS INC — $74,154 · OtherTh Training and Advocacy — $71,386 · OtherELITE DANCE ACADEMY — $64,351 · Other+23 more — $457,237 · Other+23 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $84,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE SALLIE MAE FUND INC — $47,266 · EducationTHE SALLIE…DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $18,310 · EducationDENVER CHR…SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $17,525 · EducationSOUTHWEST …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $17,379 · EducationUNIVERSITY…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $11,300 · EducationCOLORADO S…REGIS UNIVERSITY — $7,320 · Education+1 more — $6,480 · EducationCHI LIVING COMMUNITIES — $52,760 · Human ServicesCROSSWALK PEOPLE HELPERS — $42,820 · Human ServicesFoothills Sports Association — $19,168 · Recreation & SportsMOUNTAIN RANGE LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB — $12,700 · Recreation & SportsDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $17,437 · Arts & CultureWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — $14,180 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO TIER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $11,308 · Youth Development
Other$1,907,488Education$210,280Human Services$95,580Recreation & Sports$31,868Arts & Culture$17,437Community Improvement$14,180Youth Development$11,308

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $84,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTh Training and Advocacy — $71,386 over 2y, 73% of budgetCHI LIVING COMMUNITIES — $52,760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALLIE MAE FUND INC — $47,266 over 3y, 22% of budgetBROOMFIELD DANCE INC — $30,650 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBOULDER VALLEY HOCKEY FOUNDATION — $20,700 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFoothills Sports Association — $19,168 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $18,310 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $17,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $17,437 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $17,379 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — $14,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN RANGE LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB — $12,700 over 1y, 31% of budgetCOLORADO TIER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $11,308 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $11,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY — $7,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAP Giannini Middle School PTA — $7,250 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $6,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $6,351 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Th Training and Advocacy
  • Who funds CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES
  • Who funds THE SALLIE MAE FUND INC
  • Who funds CROSSWALK PEOPLE HELPERS
  • Who funds AMERICAN FUNDRAISING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BROOMFIELD DANCE INC
  • Who funds Southeast Christian School
  • Who funds BOULDER VALLEY HOCKEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Foothills Sports Association
  • Who funds DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN RANGE LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB
  • Who funds COLORADO TIER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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.

Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & SerCO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & Ser · Mile High United Way Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Home Neighborly Service of Denver 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Home Neighborly Service of Denver?

    Find your warmest path to Home Neighborly Service of Denver 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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