Colorado · 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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $529,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Rooted funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $2.9M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $3.6M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $7.6M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $5.7M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $5.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dsst Public Schools Foundation | $5,309,000 | 5 | 26% |
| Lyra | $2,452,500 | 5 | 80% |
| Luminary Learning Network | $1,754,000 | 6 | 43% |
| Rocky Mountain Preparatory Schools | $1,649,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Northeast Denver Innovation Zone | $1,229,301 | 4 | 77% |
| Strive Preparatory Schools | $1,192,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $1,175,750 | 6 | 3% |
| 50can Inc | $1,051,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Colorado League of Charter Schools | $974,200 | 6 | 8% |
| Denver Public Schools | $949,144 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 74 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Rooted supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Rooted
- How much does Rooted give?
- Rooted reported 20 grants totaling $1,384,246 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rooted fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Community Improvement (6%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Rooted's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Dsst Public Schools Foundation ($5.3M), Lyra ($2.5M), Luminary Learning Network ($1.8M).
- Does Rooted fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rooted?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Rooted based?
- Rooted is based in CO.
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