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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of denver, inc.

$270k
Granted FY2019
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Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Health$288kHuman Services$15kEducation$7kCrime & Legal$4k
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$269,748
Median grant
1
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$269,748
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%ADOPTION OPTIONS: $5k → 8%HOPE CENTER: $7k → 12%KIDS MOBILITY NETWORK INC: $13k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER: $5k → 12%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Colorado Cross Disability Coalition

To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.

2
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
3
Denver Police Activities League Inc

The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.

Youth Development
4
Adoption Dreams Come True Inc

Adoption Dreams Come True, Inc. is a Colorado state fully licensed Child Placement Agency, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization which offers state wide domestic adoption services with a sliding fee scale and free birth parent counseling.…

Human Services
5
The Rise School of Denver

The purpose of the Rise School of Denver is to provide the highest quality inclusive early childhood education and therapy for children with and without developmental disabilities. We do this by providing exemplary school- and clinic-based…

Education
6
Dental Aid

Dental aid strives to improve the quality of life of children and adults struggling to afford health care by providing compassionate, high quality dental care and education, while advocating to ensure access to care.

Health
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Disability Services of Colorado

Provide assistance to children and adults with disabilities or special needs and their families.

Health
8
Arc of West Central Colorado

The Arc of West Central Colorado is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations…

Human Services
9
Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc

Wheelchairs 4 Kids is dedicated to improving the lives of children with physical disabilities. We provide wheelchairs, home and vehicle modifications as well as other assistive or therapeutic equipment at no charge to the families.

Human Services
10
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance

To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.

Crime & Legal
11
The Denver Children's Foundation

The denver children's foundation (fka denver active 20/30 children's foundation) engages young professionals in their 20's and 30's on a philanthropic mission of raising money for various children's charities in our community. through…

Human Services
12
Advocates for Children

To provide, train and coordinate volunteer services to abused and neglected children in the 18th & 23rd Judicial District, Colorado.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Options and the most unlike its peers is Kids Mobility Network Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $269,748 · HealthLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION+1 more — $5,000 · HealthKIDS MOBILITY NETWORK INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesKIDS MOBILIT…Hope Center Inc — $7,000 · Human ServicesHope Center …ADOPTION OPTIONS — $5,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION OPT…DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS — $5,000 · Human ServicesDOLLS FOR DA…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER — $5,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE L…CHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA — $3,500 · Civil Rights
Health$274,748Human Services$35,000Civil Rights$3,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $269,748 over 1y, 39% of budgetHope Center Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADOPTION OPTIONS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DENVER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ima Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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