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The Attainment Network
THE ATTAINMENT NETWORK builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $1,010,788 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,213,771 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $202,983 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $257k
- $250k+1 grant · $522k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $522,456 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE DENVER FOUNDATION | $127,922 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC | $74,840 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $54,596 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY | $48,073 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER | $41,175 |
| COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEMS FOUNDATION | $31,170 |
| TRINIDAD STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $29,831 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $24,913 |
| ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $17,678 |
| COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $11,309 |
| ARVADA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| GENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $6,825 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Attainment Network’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $711k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $198k · revenue +71%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO2× · 2023–2024 · $178k
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN2× · 2023–2024 · $173k · revenue -50%
Funded once
- DPDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $545k · revenue +23%
- DADELIVERY ASSOCIATESone grant, 2023 · $115k
- NLNew Legacy Charter Schoolone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Community College System Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arvada Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER FDN ↗
- Who funds Aurora Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds New Legacy Charter School ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINIDAD STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION SCHOOLS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ARVADA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds San Luis Valley Behavioral Health Group Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · Boettcher Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center · Robert Hoag Rawlings 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 The Attainment Network 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Attainment Network 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.