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Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary

The exempt purpose is to provide caring service to improve the health and well being of patients (and their families, visitors, and hospital employees) at swedish medical center, as well as providing services to improve the health of the community.

$957k
Granted FY2019
15
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$315k
Largest
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 FY20182019.

Health$519kEducation$315kHuman Services$89kReligion$10kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2019 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $921,158 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $957,144 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,986 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 · FY2019

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $498k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIS UNIVERSITY$315,000
DOCTOR'S CARE$190,000
LISTEN FOUNDATION$155,000
CRAIG FOUNDATION$152,875
HCA HOPE FUND$30,000
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
WELLSPRING COMMUNITY$15,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$12,000
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER$10,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
PATIENT AND FAMILY PROGRAMS AT SWEDISH$6,283
DENVER PET PARTNERS$5,000
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $15k → 3%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $10k → 12%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 8%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.

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$216k · 3 repeat orgs$723k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -94% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$216k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-94%

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $717k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DC
    DOCTORS CARE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $199k · revenue +21%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF HOPE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $14k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k

Funded once

  • CN
    COLORADO NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -94%

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
Colorado Health Institute
Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
4
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
5
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
6
Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation

Support the work of the denver health and hospital authority in its mission to sustain and advance the health and well-being of denver, colorado and the rocky mountain region.

7
Clinica Colorado

To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.

Health
8
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
9
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
10
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado

To provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

Health
11
Denver Indian Health and Family Ser

To provide culturally competent services that promote quality health for american indian and alaskan native families and individuals in the denver area.

Human Services
12
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Craig Hospital Foundation. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOCTORS CARE — $199,000 · HealthDOCTORS CARECraig Hospital Foundation — $152,875 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation+1 more — $5,000 · HealthREGIS UNIVERSITY — $315,000 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSITYLISTEN FOUNDATION INC — $155,000 · OtherLISTEN FOUNDATION INCHOUSE OF HOPE — $13,750 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPEFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $15,283 · Other+3 moreTHE HCA HOPE FUND — $30,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING COMMUNITY — $15,000 · Human ServicesIntegrated Family Community Services — $15,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$356,875Education$315,000Other$194,033Human Services$72,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY — $315,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOCTORS CARE — $199,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetLISTEN FOUNDATION INC — $155,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $152,875 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HCA HOPE FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELLSPRING COMMUNITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDenver Pet Partners — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary?

    Find your warmest path to Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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