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The Community Firm

THE COMMUNITY FIRM dba community economic defense project (cedp) is a not-for profit organization established to provide social services, public benefits, and policy change. Our mission is to keep coloradans housed.

$84M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$80k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$16M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$200k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition$60,00012%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc$60,00011%
Tri County Housing Inc$30,00010%
Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen$30,00011%
Coloradans for the Common Good$20,0001n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Colorado Health FoundationCO13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to The Community Firm?

Find your warmest path to The Community Firm 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.

About The Community Firm

How much does The Community Firm give?
The Community Firm reported 3 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $83,768,460 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Community Firm fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (100%).
Who are The Community Firm's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Colorado Cross Disability Coalition ($60k), 9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc ($60k), Tri County Housing Inc ($30k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Community Firm?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is The Community Firm based?
The Community Firm is based in CO.

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 5 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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