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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Riverfront Park Master Assoc | $150,000 |
| Denver Biennial of Americas | $30,000 |
| WeDontWasteorg | $25,000 |
| The Greenway Foundation | $25,000 |
| Platte Forum | $25,000 |
| Urban Peak | $25,000 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $20,000 |
| Denver Art Museum | $15,000 |
| Den Cntr for Performing Arts | $12,500 |
| The Gathering Place | $10,000 |
| Clyfford Still Fndtn | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- PPLATTEFORUM8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +8%
- UPURBAN PEAK DENVER8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +239%
- HCHope Center Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CCCenter City Collaborativeone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CVCOLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +147%
- RPRiverfront ParkC&C Denverone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
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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To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
To create extraordinary experiences that champion the wonder and joy of childhood.
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Every child deserves a great educator. pebc works across the nation to prepare outstanding new teachers, help practicing teachers and leaders become exceptional, and shape systems and policies in order to foster vibrant growth and lasting…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Clyfford Still Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 29 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
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.
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- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP ↗
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- Who funds THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE KEMPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Inner City Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Colorado Coalition for the Homeless ↗
- Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES ↗
- Who funds DENVER BIKE SHARING ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE BENCH ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds DENVER HYBRID COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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 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
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 Riverfront Park Community 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.
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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