· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k61 grants · $812k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| ILLUMINATE COLORADO | $30,000 |
| MINDS MATTER COLORADO | $25,000 |
| THIRD WAY CENTER | $25,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| DENVER KIDS INC | $20,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS CTR FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| WEECYCLE | $20,000 |
| KIDS MOBILITY NETWORK | $20,000 |
| LISTEN FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO | $20,000 |
| SHILOH HOME INC | $20,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE DENVER | $20,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER | $20,000 |
| BOOK TRUST | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DKDENVER KIDS INC3× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +56%
- BOBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center7× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +100%
- MMMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC6× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- TCTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME2× · 2017–2018 · $133k · revenue -5%
- CDCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +28%
- TYThe YESS Institutegraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +77%
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.
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.
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Provides professional, educational counseling and volunteer mentors for denver public school students, grades third through twelve, with the goal of keeping them in the school system until they graduate from high school.
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Making colorado a better place for children and youth with special healthcare needs.
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A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
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Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Elevating Connections is dedicated to building sustained positive relationships for current & former youth in foster care-including those experiencing sibling separation-to find their voice & build meaningful community connections.
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How this is measured
134 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds LISTEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Illuminate Colorado ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA ↗
- Who funds SHILOH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Ralston House ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds KIDS MOBILITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Denver Children's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Denver Children's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Voices: 39% of income from government
How this is measured
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