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Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$35kEducation$26kHealth$14kHuman Services$11kHousing & Shelter$6kCivil Rights$6kInternational$5kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$515
Median grant
8
States reached
$153k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLINICA HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICESCOLORADO GIVES DAY$8,240
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$2,678
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$2,250
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
WIKIPEDIA FOUNDATION$1,520
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$1,500
CO FREEDOM INFO COALITION$1,250
KUVO KVJZ PUBLIC RADIO$1,186
ACLU OF COLORADO$1,000
COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE$1,000
AFRICAN SCHOOLS PROJECT$765
Individual grant recipient$750
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC$675
MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING$600
MERRILL MIDDLE SCHOOL$575
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PIANOS FOR PEACE: $13k → 13%PIANOS FOR PEACE: $5k → 13%NEW FUTURES: $4k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $3k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $2k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 30 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
64

Total granted

$109k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

53%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NF
    NEW FUTURES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    4× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +14%
  • CC
    CEDAR CREST COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY OPERA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -83%
  • ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +38%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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10
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Soar. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/59
Grantees still filing
34/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLINICA HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICESCOLORADO GIVES DAY: $10,320 · OtherCLINICA HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICESCOLORADO GIVES DAYCOLORADO CONSUMERS HEALTH: $7,540 · OtherCOLORADO CONSUMERS HEALTHGEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $6,500 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONMARSHALL OPERA INC: $5,587 · OtherMARSHALL OPERA INCKUVO KVJZ PUBLIC RADIO: $3,366 · Other+92 more: $58,510 · Other+92 morePIANOS FOR PEACE INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesPIANOS FOR PEACE I…NEW FUTURES: $9,500 · Human ServicesNEW FUTURESTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $9,000 · EducationTemple Universi…CEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationCEDAR CREST COL…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $4,025 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,520 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUND…+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE THEATRE LAB INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $750 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $750 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $500 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $500 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History: $500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $75 · Arts & CultureRose Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyMY TRIBUTE GIFT FOUNDATION INC: $252 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorado: $216 · PhilanthropyFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,393 · Food & NutritionALIGHT: $3,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250 · International
Other$91,823Human Services$27,000Education$22,545Arts & Culture$7,975Philanthropy$6,468Food & Nutrition$5,393International$4,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIANOS FOR PEACE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNEW FUTURES: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,393 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $4,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THEATRE LAB INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $1,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $1,033 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOWMUNDO CREATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOAR: $500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY TRIBUTE GIFT FOUNDATION INC: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $252 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISTEN FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PIANOS FOR PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY OPERA ↗
  • Who funds THE THEATRE LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗

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.

The Denver FoundationCO21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · Rotberg Comens Bray Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rotberg Comens Booth Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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