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K Financial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$33kHousing & Shelter$17kInternational$16kHealth$6kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN PEAK DENVER$3,068
COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$3,000
THERE WITH CARE$2,900
BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS$2,700
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THERE WITH CARE: $7k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $5k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $4k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $3k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $3k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $2k → 12%ROUND UP FELLOWSHIP: $859 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $1k → 12%ROUND UP FELLOWSHIP: $597 → 12%ROUND UP FELLOWSHIP: $319 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $530 → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTION SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $500 → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63k · 5 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +226% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$63k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+226%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterInternationalEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UP
    URBAN PEAK DENVER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +239%
  • CH
    COLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +226%
  • FC
    FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO
    2× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • DC
    DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -12%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • MF
    MARSHALL FIRE DISASTER RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Colorado Health Institute
Health
2
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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3
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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4
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
5
Karis Community

To provide a community where people heal together.

Unclassified
6
Center for Bright Kids

The center for bright kids cbk is an academic talent development center offering summer and academic year accelerated programs, assessment, and educational options including an independent progressive secondary school located in denver…

—
7
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
8
Colorado Uplift Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.

Education
9
Kent Denver Country Day School

Excellence in scholarship and character is the goal of a kent denver education. the school seeks to build a caring, diverse community of responsible citizens. to that end, the school provides a challenging college preparatory curriculum…

Education
10
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children

Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…

—
11
Mental Health Center of Denver

We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Health
12
Rocky Mountain Human Services

We embrace the power of community to support individuals and families in creating their future. we do this by: simplifying access, celebrating individuality, and bridging communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home; the most unlike its peers is Park Hill Bike Depot dba Bikes Together. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THERE WITH CARE: $24,824 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CAREFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2,750 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADOROUNDUP FELLOWSHIP: $1,775 · Human ServicesROUNDUP FELLOWSHIPURBAN PEAK DENVER: $17,372 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PEAK DENVERCOLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC: $16,066 · InternationalCOLORADO HAITI PROJECT…Individual grant recipient: $3,181 · OtherMARSHALL FIRE DISASTER RELIEF: $1,095 · OtherUC HEALTH UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL TRAUMA CENTER: $813 · OtherMANOR CARE: $755 · OtherMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $489 · OtherDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $3,598 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION: $400 · Health+1 more: $104 · HealthBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $2,700 · Recreation & SportsPark Hill Bike Depot dba Bikes Together: $312 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $3,000 · Environment
Human Services$29,349Housing & Shelter$17,372International$16,066Other$6,333Health$5,102Recreation & Sports$3,012Environment$3,000

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 budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $24,824 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $17,372 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC: $16,066 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $3,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDUP FELLOWSHIP: $1,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $489 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPark Hill Bike Depot dba Bikes Together: $312 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION: $104 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationIma FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Lumen Clarke M Willia…Kenneth Kendal King F…Western Union Foundat…Mile High United Way …Baird Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.6× affinity10 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ima Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to K Financial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to K Financial 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 17 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-PF 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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