Colorado · Public charity
Prosperity Denver Fund
PROSPERITY DENVER FUND invests in denver by financially supporting and partnering with scholarship providers, training providers, and nonprofits to increase the number of denver students who access and complete postsecondary pathways.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $83,444
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $9,797,590
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Prosperity Denver Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $17M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $7.8M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $5.4M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $5.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | $25,643,789 | 4 | 59% |
| Colorado Uplift Inc | $1,221,720 | 3 | 19% |
| Crosspurpose | $1,132,216 | 1 | 6% |
| Sachs Foundation | $787,457 | 4 | 7% |
| Harry L and Eva J Puksta Foundation | $769,085 | 4 | 63% |
| Mile High 360 | $459,799 | 4 | 23% |
| Kids Above Everything | $457,730 | 1 | 53% |
| Save Our Youth Inc | $408,408 | 2 | 18% |
| Highview | $402,983 | 3 | 55% |
| Minds Matter Colorado Inc | $392,894 | 3 | 28% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Prosperity Denver Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation · Ima Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund
How this is measured
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About Prosperity Denver Fund
- How much does Prosperity Denver Fund give?
- Prosperity Denver Fund reported 44 grants totaling $18,625,073 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Prosperity Denver Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (96%), Human Services (2%), Employment (1%).
- Who are Prosperity Denver Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Denver Scholarship Foundation ($26M), Colorado Uplift Inc ($1.2M), Crosspurpose ($1.1M).
- Does Prosperity Denver Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Prosperity Denver Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Prosperity Denver Fund based?
- Prosperity Denver Fund is based in CO.
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