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Riverfront Park Community Foundation

Promote social welfare by fostering excellence, diversity and opportunity in the downtown Denver community primarily through education and the arts.

$370k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$343k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Riverfront Park Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving13$343k8%
FY202411$348k9%
FY202316$283k13%
FY202219$314k11%
FY202119$250k21%
FY202017$301k6%
FY201918$252k22%
FY201814$170k7%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$978kHousing & Shelter$210kRecreation & Sports$174kEducation$172kEnvironment$168kYouth Development$100kFood & Nutrition$93kHuman Services$90kOther$0

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
Platteforum$290,000911%
Riverfront Park Master Assoc$250,0002n/a
The Greenway Foundation Inc$172,50093%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$160,00090%
Urban Peak Denver$140,00090%
Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp$112,50053%
Hope Center Inc$90,00071%
Denver Center for the Performing Arts$85,00080%
Think 360 Arts for Learning$80,00062%
Teach for America Inc$80,00070%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Riverfront Park Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Platteforum$290,000911%
Riverfront Park Master Assoc$250,0002n/a
The Greenway Foundation Inc$172,50093%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$160,00090%
Urban Peak Denver$140,00090%
Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp$112,50053%
Hope Center Inc$90,00071%
Denver Center for the Performing Arts$85,00080%
Think 360 Arts for Learning$80,00062%
Teach for America Inc$80,00070%
Denver Art Museum$72,50070%
Colorado Uplift Inc$70,00070%
Denver Inner City Parish Inc$65,00031%
Clyfford Still Museum$60,00060%
The Kempe Foundation$60,00061%
Denver Kids Inc$52,00050%
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless$45,00030%
Girls on the Run of the Rockies$40,00042%
Denver Film Society$40,00040%
The Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives$35,00040%
Center City Collaborative$25,0001n/a
Denver Bike Sharing$22,50031%
Book Trust$20,00020%
The Blue Bench$17,50021%
Colorado Village Collaborative$15,00011%
Denver Public Schools Foundation$10,00010%
Colorado Symphony Association$10,00010%
Denver Hybrid College$10,00011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Riverfront Park Community Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlatteforum: $290,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetThe Greenway Foundation Inc: $172,500 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $160,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUrban Peak Denver: $140,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Biennial of the Americas Corp: $112,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHope Center Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetDenver Center for the Performing Arts: $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThink 360 Arts for Learning: $80,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $72,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Uplift Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetClyfford Still Museum: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kempe Foundation: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDenver Kids Inc: $52,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run of the Rockies: $40,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDenver Film Society: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Bike Sharing: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBook Trust: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Blue Bench: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColorado Village Collaborative: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDenver Public Schools Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Symphony Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Hybrid College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 26.

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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 Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Schlessman Foundation…Caring for Denver Fou…Libertygives Foundati…The Anschutz Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationDenver Broncos Founda…Ima Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO36.6× affinity17 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 Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Ima 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 Riverfront Park Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Riverfront Park Community 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 Riverfront Park Community Foundation

How much does Riverfront Park Community Foundation give?
Riverfront Park Community Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $342,819, out of $370,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Riverfront Park Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Housing & Shelter (10%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are Riverfront Park Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Platteforum ($290k), Riverfront Park Master Assoc ($250k), The Greenway Foundation Inc ($173k).
Does Riverfront Park Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Riverfront Park Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Riverfront Park Community Foundation based?
Riverfront Park Community 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 30 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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