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Libertygives Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k87 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INVEST IN KIDS | $43,478 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $34,524 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC | $34,015 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $33,859 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $32,975 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $32,975 |
| HOPECYCLE | $32,975 |
| URBAN PEAK DENVER | $32,975 |
| THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $32,975 |
| THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE | $28,995 |
| LANTERN | $28,325 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO | $25,625 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $23,275 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO | $22,975 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO | $22,975 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
186 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2025, 95 since wound down; 22 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- CTCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $392k · revenue +142%
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $299k · revenue +57%
- IIINVEST IN KIDS9× · 2017–2025 · $297k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS INCone grant, 2019 · $22k
- SGSUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CHCHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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,…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Staky Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
272 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. 272 of the 393 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds HOPECYCLE ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER ↗
- Who funds THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY & FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds US SPEEDSKATING ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds The Denver Institute ↗
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 · 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
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 Libertygives Foundation 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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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