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Moonshot edVentures

To grow a community of BIPOC & historically marginalized leaders with the skills and resources to design collaborative solutions that disrupt systemic inequities impacting youth.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.4MYouth Development$544kCommunity Improvement$365kPhilanthropy$52kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $67,853, the rows itemized in this filing. The $150,287 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,434 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aurora Public Schools$20,000
Denver Public Schools$20,000
Global Village Academy$20,000
The HadaNou Collective$7,853
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 (FY21–21, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Realize Impact: $48k → 10%Im'Unique LLC: $12k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 14 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +165% since the first grant, against +138% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+165%
+138%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CONVIVIR COLORADO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $329k · revenue +178% · 89% of their budget
  • BT
    BE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $301k · revenue +499%
  • TH
    THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $272k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • Realize Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue +197%
  • I
    IM'UNIQUE
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • FL
    Flame Lily Montessorigraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +138%
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
Destination Imagination Colorado Inc

Creative problem solving education k-12 through university, training and training events

Education
2
Ascend College Prep

Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…

Education
3
Aia Colorado

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…

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4
Denver Academy Inc

Education of students with learning differences

Education
5
New Vision Charter School

Our mission is to challenge encourage and empower students everyday to persevere on their journey to becoming lifelong learners.

Education
6
High Rockies Community School

Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…

Education
7
Littleton Academy Inc

Littleton Academy ignites young minds by encouraging diversity and collaboration through experiential learning opportunities, helping students and their communities reach their full potential.

Education
8
Colorado Learning Connections

Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.

Education
9
International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education
10
Monarch Montessori of Denver Charter

The organization's mission is to provide a challenging academic program for elemtary school students based on the work of dr. montessori.

Education
11
Axis International Academy

Mission: By advancing academic excellence, cross-cultural competence, multilingualism, and social-emotional and cognitive development, AXIS Colorado and AXIS International Academy and Preschool empowers children to lead choice-filled lives…

Education
12
Luminary Learning Network

The lln brings together a group of diverse-by-design schools that are committed to providing unique and dynamic learning experiences for all students, including those historically underserved, while empowering teachers, leaders and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Prep Academy; the most unlike its peers is Im'unique. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC: $300,602 · OtherBE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INCDenver Public Schools: $222,250 · OtherDenver Public SchoolsDenver Independent School: $102,595 · OtherDenver Independent SchoolBoss Generation: $92,936 · OtherBoss GenerationJT DISTRICT 28-J: $80,000 · OtherJT DISTRICT 28-JTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $271,860 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVEProspect Academy of Colorado: $177,168 · EducationProspect Academy of ColoradoASPEN PREP ACADEMY: $85,000 · EducationASPEN PREP ACADEMYGLOBAL VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH: $80,000 · EducationGLOBAL VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTHMonument View Montessori Charter School: $40,000 · EducationMonument View Montessori Charter…+1 more: $10,889 · EducationCONVIVIR COLORADO: $328,623 · Youth DevelopmentCONVIVIR COLORA…THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $193,507 · Community ImprovementTHE COLOR…BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $111,908 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $51,779 · PhilanthropyJOY AS RESISTANCE: $122,766 · HealthRealize Impact: $48,462 · Human ServicesIM'UNIQUE: $11,620 · Human ServicesDENVER THEATRE DISTRICT INC: $5,597 · Arts & Culture
Other$798,383Education$664,917Youth Development$328,623Community Improvement$193,507Philanthropy$163,687Health$122,766Human Services$60,082Arts & Culture$5,597

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONVIVIR COLORADO: $328,623 over 3y, 89% of budgetBE THE CHANGE PROGRAM INC: $300,602 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $271,860 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $193,507 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetProspect Academy of Colorado: $177,168 over 3y, 39% of budgetJOY AS RESISTANCE: $122,766 over 2y, 33% of budgetBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $111,908 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetASPEN PREP ACADEMY: $85,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $51,779 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRealize Impact: $48,462 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMonument View Montessori Charter School: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFlame Lily Montessori: $10,889 over 1y, 11% of budgetDENVER THEATRE DISTRICT INC: $5,597 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…Caring for Denver Fou…Early Milestones Colo…New Profit IncWend II IncTrailhead InstituteGates Family Foundati…Mile High United Way …Fidelity Investments …
The Colorado Health FoundationCO19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · New Profit Inc · Wend II Inc · Trailhead Institute · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Moonshot edVentures?

    Find your warmest path to Moonshot edVentures 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 19 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 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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