How much does The Denver Children's Foundation give?

The Denver Children's Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $1,315,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Denver Children's Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Human Services (18%), Education (10%).

Who are The Denver Children's Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Denver Post Community Foundation ($800k), Denver Kids Inc ($170k), Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ($145k).

Does The Denver Children's Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Denver Children's Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.

Where is The Denver Children's Foundation based?

The Denver Children's Foundation is based in CO.

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The Denver Children's Foundation

The Denver Children's Foundation (fka denver active 20/30 children's foundation) engages young professionals in their 20's and 30's on a philanthropic mission of raising money for various children's charities in our community. Through these fundraising efforts, we are able to make a significant impact by funding many charities, but also…

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 62
Grants FY2024: 50
Organizations funded FY2023: 18%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 45 to 66; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Denver Children's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	58	$802k	17%
FY2023	50	$668k	18%
FY2022	53	$1.2M	17%
FY2021	57	$1.0M	30%
FY2019	45	$418k	31%
FY2018	66	$858k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.5MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$668kHealth$585kYouth Development$483kRecreation & Sports$460kCrime & Legal$388kArts & Culture$115kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Denver Post Community Foundation	$800,000	2	n/a
Denver Kids Inc	$170,000	3	7%
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center	$145,000	7	1%
Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home	$132,500	2	1%
Minds Matter Colorado Inc	$110,000	6	3%
Listen Foundation Inc	$105,000	7	4%
Illuminate Colorado	$100,000	7	1%
Child Advocates - Denver Casa	$93,000	7	2%
Shiloh Home Inc	$90,000	7	0%
Special Olympics Colorado	$80,000	6	0%

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All grantees of The Denver Children's Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Denver Post Community Foundation	$800,000	2	n/a
Denver Kids Inc	$170,000	3	7%
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center	$145,000	7	1%
Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home	$132,500	2	1%
Minds Matter Colorado Inc	$110,000	6	3%
Listen Foundation Inc	$105,000	7	4%
Illuminate Colorado	$100,000	7	1%
Child Advocates - Denver Casa	$93,000	7	2%
Shiloh Home Inc	$90,000	7	0%
Special Olympics Colorado	$80,000	6	0%
Safehouse Denver Inc	$75,000	6	1%
Young Americans Center for Financial Education	$75,000	7	1%
National Sports Center for the Disabled Inc	$75,000	7	1%
Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc	$70,000	5	1%
Ralston House	$70,000	7	1%
Weecycle	$70,000	4	0%
CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties	$67,000	7	2%
Adoption Options	$65,000	5	1%
Environmental Learning for Kids	$65,000	7	1%
Third Way Center Inc	$62,500	3	0%
CASA of the Pikes Peak Region	$62,500	5	1%
Sun Valley Youth Center Inc	$60,000	6	2%
Advocates for Children	$60,000	6	1%
Colorado Institute of Developmental Pediatrics Inc	$60,000	5	1%
Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc	$60,000	6	1%
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children	$55,000	6	1%
Boys and Girls Club of the Pikes Peak Region	$55,000	6	1%
Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association Inc	$55,000	4	2%
Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center	$55,000	5	2%
Colorado Uplift Inc	$55,000	4	0%
Colorado Center for the Blind	$52,000	7	0%
Kids Mobility Network Inc	$50,000	3	7%
Colorado Dream Foundation	$50,000	2	3%
Book Trust	$50,000	6	0%
Invest in Kids	$45,000	5	0%
A Precious Child Inc	$45,000	5	0%
Rise Against Suicide	$40,000	4	2%
Kent Denver Country Day School	$40,000	3	0%
Childsafe Colorado Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Hope House of Colorado	$40,000	3	0%
Platteforum	$40,000	5	2%
Casa of Jefferson and Gilpin Counties	$37,500	4	2%
Hope Center Inc	$35,000	4	1%
Griffith Centers	$35,000	3	0%
La Clinica Tepeyac	$35,000	4	0%
Denver Children's Home	$35,000	3	0%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network	$35,000	5	0%
Thriving Families	$35,000	3	1%
Colorado Technology Community Foundation	$35,000	4	4%
Focus Points Family Resource Center	$35,000	3	0%
Heart and Hand Center	$32,500	5	1%
Peak Education	$30,000	3	2%
A Childs Song Inc	$30,000	3	2%
Colorado Children's Chorale	$30,000	5	1%
The Buddy Program Inc	$30,000	4	0%
Highview	$30,000	2	9%
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Food for Hope	$30,000	4	4%
Art From Ashes Incorporated	$30,000	3	3%
Family Learning Center	$25,000	2	2%
Reaching Hope	$25,000	2	1%
Child and Family Advocacy Program	$25,000	3	1%
Raise the Future	$25,000	3	0%
Assistance League of Denver	$25,000	2	2%
Summer Scholars	$23,000	3	0%
Finally Home Foundation	$20,000	2	1%
Roots Family Center	$20,000	2	3%
The YESS Institute	$20,000	2	2%
Reach Out and Read Colorado	$20,000	2	1%
Colorado Academy	$20,000	2	0%
Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists	$20,000	2	1%
Colorado Association of Family And	$20,000	1	3%
Colorado Friendship Inc	$20,000	4	3%
Denver Area Youth Services	$20,000	2	1%
Court Appointed Special Advocate Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Harvest Mountain Ministries	$15,000	2	1%
Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc	$15,000	2	4%
Mile High 360	$15,000	2	1%
Second Wind Fund Inc	$15,000	2	3%
Denver Youth Program	$15,000	2	n/a
Denver Children's Advocacy Center	$15,000	2	1%
Friends First Inc	$15,000	2	1%
Pcs for People	$15,000	1	0%
Family Homestead	$10,000	2	1%
Careers in Construction Colorado	$10,000	1	1%
Porchlight a Family Justice Center	$10,000	1	1%
Secor	$10,000	1	0%
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning	$10,000	2	0%
Education Through Music	$10,000	1	n/a
Warren Village Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Judi's House Inc	$10,000	2	0%
I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County	$10,000	1	0%
Save Our Youth Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Denver Urban Scholars	$10,000	2	1%
Educational Access Group	$10,000	1	13%
Westminster Public Schools Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Big City Mountaineers	$10,000	1	1%
Outdoor Lab Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Therapies for Hope Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Family Voices	$10,000	1	0%
Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Night Lights Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Colorado Youth for a Change	$10,000	2	0%
The Greenway Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado	$10,000	2	0%
Wapiyapi	$10,000	1	2%
Safe Families for Children Alliance	$10,000	1	0%
Azteca Boxing Club	$10,000	1	4%
Girls on the Run of the Rockies	$5,000	1	1%
Savio House	$5,000	1	0%
Colorado Volunteers in Juvenile & Criminal Justice	$5,000	1	n/a
Lucky Bikes	$5,000	1	1%
Alliance for Choice in Education	$5,000	2	0%
Kids in Need of Dentistry	$5,000	2	0%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Children's Literacy Center Inc	$5,000	2	1%
Doctors Care	$5,000	2	0%
Food For Thought Denver	$5,000	1	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Extended Hands of Hope	$5,000	1	1%
New Dance Theatre Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Colorado Mountain Club	$5,000	2	0%
Wedontwaste Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Hard At Work For Kids HAWKS	$5,000	1	2%
Attention Inc	$5,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Denver Children's Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 119.

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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 FoundationCO127.4× affinity101 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt 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.

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About The Denver Children's Foundation

How much does The Denver Children's Foundation give?: The Denver Children's Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $1,315,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Denver Children's Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Human Services (18%), Education (10%).
Who are The Denver Children's Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Denver Post Community Foundation ($800k), Denver Kids Inc ($170k), Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ($145k).
Does The Denver Children's Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Denver Children's Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is The Denver Children's Foundation based?: The Denver Children's Foundation is based in CO.