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Plinth

· Public charity

Rooted

To dramatically increase the number of dps students attending schools that partner authentically with communities to deliver a high quality education for all.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$529k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2025.

Education$24MCommunity Improvement$1.8MYouth Development$1.4MPhilanthropy$541kPublic Benefit$212kHuman Services$160kCivil Rights$128kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $535k
  • $250k+1 grant · $529k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUMINARY LEARNING$529,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PREP$207,000
DENVER FAMILIES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$158,338
RADIAN$120,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
SCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS$45,500
TEACH FOR AMERICA$40,000
FAITHBRIDGE$40,000
STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC$21,500
JUNTOS COMMUNITY$20,000
EDNIUM THE ALUMNI COLLECTIVE$20,000
MONTBELLO ORGANIZING COMMITTEE$20,000
50CAN INC$20,000
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER$20,000
MONARCH MONTESSORI$18,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $287k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 8%5280 FREEDOM SCHOOL (VIA REALIZE IM: $15k → 10%5280 FREEDOM SCHOOL (VIA REALIZE IM: $14k → 10%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WI: $20k → 8%Black Child Development: $15k → 8%5280 FREEDOM SCHOOL (VIA BLACK LIVE: $10k → 12%5280 FREEDOM SCHOOL (VIA BLACK LIVE: $88k → 12%JUNTOS COMMUNITY: $20k → 12%DENVER JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND COM: $75k → 12%Denver Journal of Education and Community: $30k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
CO
MD
DC
LA

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 46 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
22

Total granted

$27M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+10%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • LL
    LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +171% · 43% of their budget
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +70%
  • SP
    Strive Preparatory Schools
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • EMPOWER SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $385k · revenue +79%
  • RE
    Roots Elementary School
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue -59%
  • BC
    BLACK CAPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -92% · 62% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
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
2
Colorado Association of School Executives

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

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3
Denver School of Science and Technology Inc

Dsst public schools transforms urban public education by eliminating educational inequity and preparing all students for success in college and the 21st century.

Education
4
Rooted

To dramatically increase the number of dps students attending schools that partner authentically with communities to deliver a high quality education for all.

Education
5
Pikes Peak School of Expeditionary Learning

Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.

Education
6
Soar Charter School

Soar charter school was founded in 2010 and is built on the premise that we should "expect more" from our public schools. soar students create full and meaningful lives, enrich our democracy, and contribute to a more just society.

Education
7
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
8
Goal Academy

GOAL Academy is an alternative education online blended high school serving students across the state of Colorado. GOAL's mission statement is "to develop productive members of society". GOAL's vision statement is "to help all students…

Education
9
Great Education Colorado

Great education colorado harnesses the power of grassroots activism and diverse, inclusive networks to guarantee that public schools in every colorado community are welcoming and adequately, equitably, and sustainably funded

Education
10
5280 High School

Through authentic academic experiences and a culture of holistic wellness embedded in strong diverse community, 5280 high school prepares all students for success in college, their future career, and anything life throws at them.

Education
11
Denver Academy Inc

Education of students with learning differences

Education
12
Colorado Early Colleges

Every student regardless of background or skill level will achieve mastery and will demonstrate that they can succeed in high school in college and in their chosen career. no exceptons no excuses.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Capital Foundation. 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 15 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%8%<5yr14%20%5–10yr20%36%10–20yr21%20%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%27%5–10yr20%40%10–20yr21%27%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
11%
3,314/28,920

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.

04the grantee network

73 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 76 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
41/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,309,000 · EducationDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONLYRA — $2,452,500 · EducationLYRALUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK — $1,754,000 · EducationLUMINARY LEARNING NETWORKStrive Preparatory Schools — $1,192,500 · EducationStrive Preparatory Schools50CAN INC — $1,051,500 · Education50CAN INCCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $974,200 · EducationMoonshot edVentures — $782,000 · EducationBEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE — $776,000 · Education+35 more — $5,084,057 · Education+35 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS — $1,649,500 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATO…NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE — $1,229,301 · OtherNORTHEAST DENVER INNOVAT…Denver Public Schools — $949,144 · OtherDenver Public SchoolsAmerican Indian Academy of Denver — $524,900 · OtherAmerican Indian Academy …CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS — $260,000 · OtherColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization — $247,357 · OtherYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism — $270,000 · Other+11 more — $1,147,253 · Other+11 moreTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $1,175,750 · Community Improvement+2 more — $60,000 · Community ImprovementRADIAN PLACEMATTERS INC — $566,305 · Public BenefitRose Community Foundation — $476,271 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropySTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $426,500 · Youth DevelopmentPark Hill Collective Impact — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $120,000 · Human ServicesBLACK LIVES MATTER 5280 — $97,500 · Human ServicesRealize Impact — $29,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesJUNTOS COMMUNITY — $20,000 · Human Services
Education$19,375,757Other$6,277,455Community Improvement$1,235,750Public Benefit$566,305Philanthropy$551,271Youth Development$466,500Human Services$286,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,309,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetLYRA — $2,452,500 over 5y, 80% of budgetLUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK — $1,754,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS — $1,649,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE — $1,229,301 over 4y, 77% of budgetStrive Preparatory Schools — $1,192,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $1,175,750 over 6y, 3.0% of budget50CAN INC — $1,051,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $974,200 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetMoonshot edVentures — $782,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetBEACON NETWORK SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE — $776,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $575,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRADIAN PLACEMATTERS INC — $566,305 over 6y, 22% of budgetAmerican Indian Academy of Denver — $524,900 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetKIPP Colorado Schools — $499,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $476,271 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL OF DENVER — $470,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $426,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOOLS INC — $385,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY SCHOOLS — $357,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFaithBridge — $350,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC — $315,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $300,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOUR TURN INC — $297,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetSCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS — $284,250 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetYoung African Americans for Social and Political Activism — $270,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS — $260,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization — $247,357 over 4y, 13% of budgetGENERATION TEACH INC — $200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMontbello Organizing Committee — $195,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetKEYSTONE CENTER — $140,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCLIMB HIGHER COLORADO — $140,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $130,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetRoots Elementary School — $125,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEDNIUM THE ALUMNI COLLECTIVE INC — $120,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $120,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBLACK CAPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetBLACK LIVES MATTER 5280 — $97,500 over 2y, 50% of budgetCOLORADO ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS — $80,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLINE ACADEMY — $47,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $46,993 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompass Academy — $46,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION — $45,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE CONFLICT CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetColorado Succeeds — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPark Hill Collective Impact — $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Gates Family Foundati…Colorado Gives Founda…Daniels FundMargulf FoundationGary PhilanthropyWend II IncDonnell-Kay Foundatio…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Lyra
Rose Community FoundationCO67.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Daniels Fund · Margulf Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Wend II Inc · Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Lyra

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 Rooted 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Generation Teach Inc — 42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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