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Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $921,158, the rows itemized in this filing. The $957,144 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,986 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER$10,000
PATIENT AND FAMILY PROGRAMS AT SWEDISH$6,283
DENVER PET PARTNERS$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$2,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$1,000
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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -94% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; 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 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Schlessman Foundation…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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