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Rose Foundation

See Schedule O.The purpose of the Foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the seven-county greater Denver community by identifying and supporting programs in the areas of aging, child and family development, education, health and Jewish life.

$11M
Granted FY2017
153
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$421k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 153 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 153 grants below total $7,467,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,243,843 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,776,054 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k25 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k89 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.3M
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$308M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rose Community Foundation$420,667
Colorado Center on Law and Policy$361,360
UpStart$323,211
Colorado Children's Campaign$315,200
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$296,300
Aurora Public School District$275,675
Via Mobility Services$260,000
Teach Plus$225,000
OneTable$200,500
Colorado Department of Human Services$200,000
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch$166,000
The Colorado Education Initiative$150,000
Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center$140,036
Jewish Family Service of Colorado$132,550
The Wexner Foundation$125,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance: $60k → 7%Seniors' Resource Center: $5k → 12%Family Tree: $20k → 7%Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition: $30k → 10%Early Childhood Council of Boulder County: $20k → 12%Boulder Jewish Community Center: $104k → 12%Mi Casa Resource Center: $30k → 12%Little Giants Learning Center: $5k → 10%Access Opportunity: $5k → 12%Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center: $140k → 12%Via Mobility Services: $260k → 12%The Acorn School for Early Childhood Development: $10k → 12%Center for People with Disabilities: $10k → 12%Clayton Early Learning: $95k → 12%Qualistar Colorado: $30k → 12%Hope Center: $10k → 12%Catholic Charities: $15k → 12%Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $133k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $15k → 12%Laradon: $10k → 12%Bright By Three: $20k → 12%CHARG Resource Center: $15k → 12%Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado: $30k → 12%Warren Village: $40k → 12%The Center for Trauma & Resilience: $15k → 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

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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 Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
2
Aia Colorado

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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3
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
4
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
5
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
6
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
7
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
8
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
9
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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10
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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11
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
12
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Wexner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development and Educa…Healthcare Provider NetworksCommunity Food JusticeLegal Services & AdvocacyCommunity Grantmaking Found…K-12 Educational ProgramsSupportive Housing & Homele…Arts and Culture Organizati…Colorado Ballot Issue Advoc…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr14%14%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/149
the rest of the field
13%
1,372/10,651

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.

03the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/139
Grantees still filing
112/139
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $315,200 · OtherCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGNJT DISTRICT 28-J — $280,675 · OtherJT DISTRICT 28-JCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE — $210,000 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICEVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCH — $166,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA COLORADO BRANCHWEXNER FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherONETABLE INC — $200,500 · OtherONETABLE INCTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $150,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 · Other+57 more — $1,268,253 · Other+57 moreVia Mobility Services — $260,000 · Human ServicesVia Mobility Serv…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $140,036 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $132,550 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SER…THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $103,500 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWIS…GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST — $95,150 · Human ServicesGEORGE W CLAYTON …EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $40,100 · Human Services+19 more — $304,725 · Human Services+19 moreTEACH PLUS INC — $225,000 · EducationTEACH PLUS INCDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $121,232 · EducationDENVER JEWISH D…RISE COLORADO — $75,000 · EducationRISE COLORADOPARENT POSSIBLE — $70,000 · EducationPARENT POSSIBLETeach for America Inc — $52,500 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $50,000 · EducationRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $45,000 · EducationROOTS FAMILY CENTER — $40,000 · Education+22 more — $341,425 · Education+22 moreUPSTART BAY AREA — $323,211 · Community ImprovementUPSTART BAY …THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $321,300 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO…Center for African American Health — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for A…+4 more — $80,575 · Community Improvement+4 moreCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS — $119,070 · HealthCENTER FOR …DENTAL AID — $118,240 · HealthDENTAL AIDCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC — $112,500 · HealthCOLORADO CO…EASTER SEALS COLORADO — $65,000 · HealthEASTER SEAL…Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $50,000 · HealthRocky Mount…NOURISH COLORADO — $50,000 · HealthNOURISH COL…COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $50,000 · HealthCOLORADO OR…LA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $40,050 · HealthMental Health Center of Denver — $31,000 · HealthKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE — $30,500 · HealthHOW TO READ YOUR BABY — $29,220 · Health+4 more — $66,875 · Health+4 moreRose Community Foundation — $420,667 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $101,775 · Philanthropy+2 more — $19,600 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $361,360 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,815,628Human Services$1,136,061Education$1,020,157Community Improvement$825,086Health$762,455Philanthropy$542,042Crime & Legal$366,360

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 budgetRose Community Foundation — $420,667 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $361,360 over 1y, 21% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA — $323,211 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $321,300 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN — $315,200 over 1y, 18% of budgetVia Mobility Services — $260,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $225,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetONETABLE INC — $200,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $140,036 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $132,550 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS — $119,070 over 1y, 19% of budgetDENTAL AID — $118,240 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC — $112,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $103,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $101,775 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for African American Health — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST — $95,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIED HOUSING INC — $78,283 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER — $75,250 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetRISE COLORADO — $75,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPARENT POSSIBLE — $70,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS COLORADO — $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $52,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT — $45,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $40,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $40,050 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROOTS FAMILY CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION — $36,470 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMENORAH ARTS CULTURE AND EDUCATION AT THE BOULDER JCC — $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $33,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver — $31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE — $30,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER — $30,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $30,050 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIMMUNIZE COLORADO — $30,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetHEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOW TO READ YOUR BABY — $29,220 over 1y, 14% 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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Daniels FundMile High United Way …Caring for Colorado F…Schlessman Foundation…Hill Foundation Wells…Delta Dental Plan of …The Anschutz Foundati…
Rose Community FoundationCO185.8× affinity110 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 · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · The Anschutz 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 Rose 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
63report 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 149 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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