How much did Rose Foundation grant in FY2017?

Rose Foundation reported 153 grants totaling $11,243,843 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is Rose Foundation based?

Rose Foundation is based in CO.

Rose Foundation

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· Public charity

Rose Foundation

To enhance the quality of life in the greater Denver community using its leadership and resources.

$11M

Granted FY2017

153

Grants

Communities

$421k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 153 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

States reached

$308M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Colorado Legal Services

Provides access to quality civil legal services to as many people in colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

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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Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council

Provide services to improve early childhood education in arapahoe county, colorado.

Education

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

Colorado Association of School

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

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Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health

International School of Denver

To develop conscientious, self-confident, multilingual, and multicultural thinkers.

Education

Colorado Digital Health

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

Health

Colorado Council On Economic

Empowering colorado students to achieve a lifetime of ecconomic understanding and financial freedom.

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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

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Mountainland Pediatrics Inc

To enhance the health of our community by providing comprehensive evidence-based mental healthcare integrated with quality primary care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Child Care Colorado and the most unlike its peers is La Clinica Tepeyac. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%1/149

the rest of the field

11%

1,186/10,651

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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

134/139

Grantees still filing

110/139

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

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

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 FoundationCO193.7× affinity113 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 · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Daniels Fund · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado · Early Milestones Colorado · The Jay & Rose Phillips Family 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 organisation 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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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Colorado Center on Law and Policy.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +78% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841264154 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Colorado Center on Law and Policy, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rose Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rose Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Rose Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

139 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rose Foundation?

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Rose Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

139 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rose Foundation?

More from the funding graph