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Libertygives Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$790k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
116
Grants FY2025
96
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$43,478
Organizations funded a year
96 to 129
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
18
Total assets, FY2025
$21k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Libertygives Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving113$788k19%
FY202496$729k21%
FY202398$733k14%
FY2022111$785k23%
FY2021101$662k22%
FY2020123$793k29%
FY2019129$695k40%
FY2018126$657k52%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHuman Services$1.3MReligion$716kYouth Development$692kHealth$591kRecreation & Sports$400kArts & Culture$273kPhilanthropy$240kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc$392,47693%
Teach for America Inc$353,37790%
Denver Rescue Mission$298,98390%
Invest in Kids$297,04591%
Hopecycle$250,027967%
Mile High United Way Inc$224,94170%
Bright Beginnings$179,71682%
Roundup River Ranch$177,04690%
The Challenge Foundation Inc$167,04592%
National Jewish Health$154,13970%
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All grantees of Libertygives Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc$392,47693%
Teach for America Inc$353,37790%
Denver Rescue Mission$298,98390%
Invest in Kids$297,04591%
Hopecycle$250,027967%
Mile High United Way Inc$224,94170%
Bright Beginnings$179,71682%
Roundup River Ranch$177,04690%
The Challenge Foundation Inc$167,04592%
National Jewish Health$154,13970%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado Inc$150,91591%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$147,73360%
Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver$143,72071%
Three Birds Alliance$136,13462%
Children's Advocacy & Family Resources Inc$133,79592%
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc$126,95071%
Denver Scholarship Foundation$119,40270%
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado$119,09190%
Alliance for Choice in Education$99,08760%
Colorado Academy$97,55870%
Assistance League of Denver$89,25472%
Mile High Montessori Early Learning Cent$84,05050%
Calvary Chapel Chester Springs$79,7008n/a
Urban Peak Denver$74,78740%
Our Father Lutheran Church$71,2208n/a
Girl Scouts of Colorado$62,83340%
Soccer Without Borders$56,47741%
Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center$48,10441%
US Speedskating$45,00040%
Pax Christi Catholic Church$42,0106n/a
St Frances Cabrini Catholic Parish$40,9067n/a
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc$40,67550%
Olivet College$40,00030%
Crosspoint Community Church$40,0003n/a
Duke University$38,20060%
University of Denver$37,84390%
The Denver Institute$37,50061%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$36,25070%
Warren Village Inc$36,17540%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$31,55660%
University of Utah$31,2503n/a
Foresight Ski Guides Inc$30,27525%
Denver Kids Inc$30,00021%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc$30,00030%
Special Olympics Colorado$29,12520%
Indiana University Foundation$29,00040%
University of Colorado Foundation$22,75080%
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado$20,00020%
Food Bank of the Rockies$19,81290%
Gold Crown Foundation$19,12520%
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children$17,50030%
Colorado State University Foundation$15,92570%
Southeast Denver Christian Church$15,6023n/a
The Denver Street School$15,00021%
Young Americans Center for Financial Education$14,12520%
Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force$13,50060%
Secor$13,06650%
Gam United Football Club$12,9751n/a
Bullying Recovery Resource Center$12,975110%
Punahou School$11,50840%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado$11,02070%
Senior Support Services Inc$10,25060%
New Dance Theatre Inc$10,0001n/a
Rochester Institute of Technology$10,00010%
Ford's Theatre Society$10,00020%
Regis Jesuit High School$9,5003n/a
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$8,97920%
Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation$8,19960%
Gracefull Foundation$7,50021%
Tall Tales Ranch$7,50020%
Third Way Center Inc$7,50050%
Claremont McKenna College$7,50040%
Breakthrough T1d$7,43720%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$7,00020%
The Maxfund Inc$6,52090%
Rocky Mountain Stroke Center$6,5003n/a
Foundation at Pck$6,27633%
PTA Co Cong Red Rocks Elementary$6,20031%
Denver Dumb Friends League$6,08590%
Denver Zoological Foundation$6,04870%
Dignity Project$5,83822%
Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc$5,80030%
Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Inc$5,5615n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,30080%
Timanous Foundation$5,15020%
Shared Hope International$5,05080%
Advocates for Children$5,00010%
The Western Stock Show Association$5,00010%
The V Foundation$5,00010%
Kantorei$5,00031%
Denver Jewish Day School$4,73560%
Covered Corporation$4,61850%
The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc$4,55030%
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region$4,38080%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$4,2401n/a
Love146 Inc$4,15470%
Grace Church of Arvada$4,0001n/a
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$3,85080%
Dia Gratia Inc$3,8002n/a
Take Note Colorado$3,75011%
Denver Children's Home$3,50020%
Phillips Exeter Academy$3,05020%
Greater Europe Mission$3,0002n/a
The Gary and Leslie Howard Family Foundation$3,00030%
The Arc Arapahoe Douglas & Elbert Counties Inc$3,00020%
Frontier School of the Bible$2,80010%
University of Chicago$2,55010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,50820%
Hideout Ministries$2,50011%
The Milken Institute$2,5001n/a
Purdue Research Foundation$2,38020%
Arapahoe Warrior Booster Organization$2,32040%
4 Paws 4 Life Rescue$2,29540%
Diocese of Colorado Springs$2,2522n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$2,11340%
Vivent Health Inc$2,10010%
Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp$2,10010%
Douglas County Educational Foundation$2,06260%
Castle Rock Senior Center Inc$1,80060%
Douglas County Libraries Foundation$1,70960%
Real Colorado Soccer$1,60020%
Golden Retriever Freedom Rescue Inc$1,57520%
American Heart Association Inc$1,57260%
Safehouse Denver Inc$1,55570%
Heifer Project International$1,52030%
Susan G Komen Colorado$1,4503n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,42560%
Road to Hope of Haiti$1,30330%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,25850%
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver$1,16660%
Valor Christian Schools$1,10520%
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc$1,06160%
Anti-Defamation League$1,06140%
Trevor Project Inc$1,03410%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1,0001n/a
Step Denver$1,00010%
Team Impact Inc$1,00010%
Nourish Meals on Wheels$1,00020%
O C International Inc$1,0001n/a
New Legacy Charter School$1,00010%
The Navigators$1,0001n/a
Clyfford Still Museum$1,00010%
Co Congress of Parents Teachers Students$90031%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$85550%
Colorado Community Church$8301n/a
Episcopal School of Nashville$75010%
Hope and Home$7501n/a
Tca Braves Youth Sports$7501n/a
Kidz Outdoors Inc$75010%
American Academy Foundation$70715%
Energy Outreach Colorado$70020%
Presenting Denver$66431%
Staky Foundation$6502n/a
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc$62130%
Volunteers of America Inc$6052n/a
Creighton University$60040%
Renaissance Secondary School$60020%
Charlotte Country Day School$60010%
Angels With Paws$60030%
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart$5626n/a
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$55840%
Denver Film Society$55010%
Newborn Hope Incorporated$52110%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc$51310%
Hospice of Metro Denver Inc$51050%
Bayou Gulch Open Space Initiative$50010%
Patriots Care Inc$5001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50020%
Global Livingston Institute$50010%
Patrick Straut Foundation$50027%
Michigan Rugby Foundation$5001n/a
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning$50010%
Elizabeth Education Foundation$5001n/a
Hope Hospice and Community Services Inc$50010%
Redline$50010%
American Brain Tumor Association$50010%
Pipers Angels Foundation Inc$44130%
Raise the Future$40030%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$40030%
Diabetes Support Network Inc$3601n/a
Ali Forney Center Inc$3601n/a
Weecycle$34430%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$33850%
The Blue Bench$32930%
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged$32540%
ACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc$30420%
Smoky Hill Sharks Swim Team Inc$3023n/a
Operation Equine Inc$3001n/a
Cat Care Society$26330%
Chaparral High School Band Boosters$25012%
Hunger Free Colorado$25010%
Fallen Officer Fund of Douglas County Foundation$2501n/a
The Colson Center for Christian Worldview$25010%
Montessori Academy of Colorado$25010%
Westwoods Community Church$2501n/a
Focus on the Family$2501n/a
Deer Creek Middle School PTO$2501n/a
Williams College$25010%
The Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives$20210%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$20020%
Free to Breathe$20020%
Retriever Rescue of Colorado$2001n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$2001n/a
Grant Avenue Baptist Church$2001n/a
The Colorado Mountain Club$20020%
Inca Link International Inc$20010%
Athlete Ally Inc$18010%
Rosie's Ranch$17640%
Kansas State University Foundation$15010%
Wreaths Across America$15020%
Grandview Volleyball Booster Club$15010%
American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado$15010%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$15010%
Penn Hillel$13620%
Catholic Relief Services$1252n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$12010%
The Viscardi Center Inc$11810%
Epic Experience$10410%
Can'd Aid$10310%
Wildland Firefighter Foundation$10310%
Judi's House Inc$10210%
University of Washington Foundation$10010%
The Eisenhower Foundation$10010%
Henry Viscardi School$10010%
Teen Missions International Inc$1001n/a
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$10010%
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorders Inc$10010%
Uss Midway Museum$10010%
McPherson College$10010%
Teens Run DC$10010%
River Town Racers$10010%
Rocky Mountain Honor Flight$10010%
JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation$10010%
The Osteosarcoma Institute$10010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$10010%
Greater Good Charities$10010%
Alpha Delta Pi Foundation$10010%
Adopt a Golden Knoxville Inc$1001n/a
Special Olympics Michigan Inc$1001n/a
Undestructable$10010%
No One Left Behind$10010%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$10010%
Shining Stars Foundation$10010%
Howard Volunteer Fire Department$1001n/a
Feel the Beat Corp$10010%
Global Down Syndrome Foundation$10010%
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc$10010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$10010%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$1001n/a
Friends of Castlewood Canyon State Park$1001n/a
SUMMIT PREGNANCY INFORMATION CENTER EXCH dba SANCTITY OF LIFE CENTER$10010%
Samaritan's Purse$1001n/a
DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation$10010%
Children's Heart Foundation$1001n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$10010%
March of Dimes Inc$10010%
Pleasant Hill Baseball Association$10010%
Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition$7511%
United States Fund for Unicef$7510%
The Food Bank for Larimer County$5210%
Focus Reentry$5110%
Denver Youth Program$5110%
Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc$5010%
National Organization for Women Foundation Inc$5010%
Dream Center Denver$501n/a
Easter Seals Inc$5010%
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum$5010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$5010%
Domus Pacis Family Respite Inc$5010%
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma$5010%
The Blue Card Inc$5010%
Camp Kesem National$5010%
Reel Recovery Inc$5010%
Colorado State Fire Fighters Foundation$5010%
Colorado Youth for a Change$5010%
Girls Inc$5010%
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders New York City Inc$5010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$5010%
Greater Pottstown Tennis & Learning Association$5010%
Literacy Outreach$501n/a
Adult Congenital Heart Association$5010%
Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium$421n/a
Best Friends Animal Society$4010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$4010%
Safe Harbor Lab Rescue$4010%
Vertical Raise Np Inc$3610%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3510%
Rocky Mountain Collie and Sheltie Rescue Inc$2610%
Higher Ground Youth Challenge$2510%
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$2510%
Catholic Radio Network Inc$251n/a
The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc$2510%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$2010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($874k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Libertygives Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClothes to Kids of Denver Inc: $392,476 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $353,377 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $298,983 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInvest in Kids: $297,045 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHopecycle: $250,027 over 9y, 67% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $224,941 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBright Beginnings: $179,716 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $177,046 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe Challenge Foundation Inc: $167,045 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $154,139 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado Inc: $150,915 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $147,733 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Metro Denver: $143,720 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetThree Birds Alliance: $136,134 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Advocacy & Family Resources Inc: $133,795 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetJunior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc: $126,950 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDenver Scholarship Foundation: $119,402 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Colorado: $119,091 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $99,087 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Academy: $97,558 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Denver: $89,254 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetMile High Montessori Early Learning Cent: $84,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Peak Denver: $74,787 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Colorado: $62,833 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSoccer Without Borders: $56,477 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Children's Law Center: $48,104 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUS Speedskating: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRocky Mountain Public Media Inc: $40,675 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOlivet College: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $38,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $37,843 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Denver Institute: $37,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $36,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWarren Village Inc: $36,175 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $31,556 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetForesight Ski Guides Inc: $30,275 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetDenver Kids Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Colorado: $29,125 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $22,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $19,812 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGold Crown Foundation: $19,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDelta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $15,925 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Denver Street School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Americans Center for Financial Education: $14,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 FoundationCO102.7× affinity103 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 · Rose Community Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Western Union Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Children's 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.

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How do I get to Libertygives Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Libertygives 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.

About Libertygives Foundation

How much does Libertygives Foundation give?
Libertygives Foundation reported 116 grants totaling $789,736 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 96 and 129 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Libertygives Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (20%), Religion (11%).
Who are Libertygives Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc ($392k), Teach for America Inc ($353k), Denver Rescue Mission ($299k).
Does Libertygives Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Libertygives Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Libertygives Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Libertygives Foundation based?
Libertygives Foundation is based in CO.

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 393 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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