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Kroenke Sports Charities Inc
Kroenke sports charities is committed to improving the lives of families and children in colorado.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $1,193,173 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,367,056 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $173,883 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $501k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $627k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver | $200,000 |
| Gold Crown Foundation | $146,667 |
| Denver Public Schools | $100,000 |
| Special Olympics Colorado | $80,000 |
| Young Americans Center for Financial Education | $50,000 |
| Playworks Education Energized | $50,000 |
| Freedom Service Dogs | $36,225 |
| Food For Thought Denver | $30,000 |
| Wish for Wheels | $26,500 |
| Make A Wish Foundation | $20,900 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $20,000 |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $17,500 |
| Denver Police Foundation | $17,500 |
| Colorado Pet Pantry DBA Animal Haus | $16,346 |
| Colorado Sled Hockey | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $794k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- GCGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO9× · 2017–2025 · $511k · revenue +55%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $315k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CMCOLORADO METH PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
- GHGOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0% · 41% of their budget
- TATRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +25%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is American Amputee Soccer Association. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 132 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 GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Healing Fund ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DENVER POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PET PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO AVALANCHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOU CAN PLAY ↗
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 Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Ima 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 Kroenke Sports Charities Inc 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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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