· Public charity
Impact 100 Metro Denver
To inspire and empower a community of women to be intentional and informed philanthropists, collectively funding transformational grants to metro denver nonprofits.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE COMMUNITIES INC | $100,000 |
| BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION | $50,000 |
| PRODIGY VENTURES INC | $50,000 |
| THE GROWHAUS | $20,000 |
| SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL | $16,804 |
| COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $12,500 |
| ROOTS FAMILY CENTER | $12,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN MICROFINANCE INSTITUTE | $11,908 |
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 (FY21–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Impact 100 Metro Denver’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 98% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MDMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +27%
- VFVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO2× · 2022–2023 · $71k · revenue +30%
- TOThe Other Side Academy2× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- SCSecond Chance Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +123%
- MCMI CASA RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $71k · revenue -6%
- MRMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.
Work options for women helps people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary training.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Womens Resource Center (WRC) in Durango connects women and girls to the resources and programming that will help them reach their full potential in all states of their life.
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.
We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Mi Casa Resource Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
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 THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING SOURCE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Microfinance ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds PRODIGY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROOTS FAMILY 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Trailhead Institute · Xcel Energy 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 Impact 100 Metro 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.
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.