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The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

$143M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,184
Grants FY2024still arriving
45
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$124MHealth$104MPhilanthropy$97MHuman Services$52MFood & Nutrition$39MArts & Culture$38MEnvironment$30MHousing & Shelter$29MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1184 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,184 grants below total $131,693,864, the rows itemized in this filing. The $143,235,358 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,541,494 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k128 grants · $904k
  • $10k–50k629 grants · $13M
  • $50k–250k348 grants · $32M
  • $250k+79 grants · $86M
$26,500
Median grant
45
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$25,000,000
PLENTIFUL$4,000,000
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - DPS FOUNDATION$3,246,196
DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,650,879
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY$2,176,316
BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION$2,106,500
URBAN PEAK$2,028,660
COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$2,010,129
NORTHEAST AMERICAN DIOCESE OF THE MALANKARA ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH$2,000,000
MALANKARA ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH DIOCESE OF SOUTH-WEST AMERICA$2,000,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$1,691,233
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$1,431,553
THE GATHERING PLACE$1,426,618
COBALT FOUNDATION$1,275,883
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$1,239,085
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $42.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NPX CHARITABLE INC: $641k → 10%CREDIT COUNSELING OF ARKANSAS INC: $346k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $252k → 14%SUMMIT COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER FIRC: $275k → 9%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1.0M → 11%NPX CHARITABLE INC: $600k → 10%THE FAMILY CENTER: $355k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1.0M → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $780k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $770k → 11%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $281k → 7%SHALOM PARK: $262k → 8%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $1.3M → 12%DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC: $800k → 12%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $500k → 16%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $258k → 7%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $298k → 12%MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $275k → 12%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $232k → 7%DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC: $257k → 12%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $452k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $382k → 8%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES INC - CHIC: $375k → 8%CEDS FINANCE - COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $370k → 8%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $351k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $271k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $1.1M → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $900k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $751k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $640k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $600k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $500k → 8%ONE GOOD TURN: $350k → 8%JUVENILE ASSESSMENT CENTER: $282k → 8%CLAYTON EARLY LEARNING: $295k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $270k → 12%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $226k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK: $652k → 12%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $575k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES - ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $784k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $541k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $519k → 12%LEARNING ALLY INC: $505k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $360k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $229k → 12%DENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $2.0M → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $386k → 12%THE CENTER FOR TRAUMA & RESILIENCE: $225k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MO
KY
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Denver Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Denver Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540M · 1435 repeat orgs$65M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

1435 repeat relationships: 832 still active in FY2024, 603 since wound down; 129 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1435
373

Total granted

$540M
$44M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+23%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +168% · 43% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +79%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • DB
    Denver Broncos Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $9.3M · revenue +14%
  • AP
    AGORA PARTNERSHIPS
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +8% · 53% of their budget
  • TR
    TRANSFORMING RESEARCH INTO ACTION TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF STUDENTS
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
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
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Social Venture Partners Boulder

To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.

Philanthropy
3
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
4
International School of Denver

To develop conscientious, self-confident, multilingual, and multicultural thinkers.

Education
5
Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights
6
Colorado Association of School

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

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7
Rocky Mountain Values

Rocky Mountain Values is a Colorado non-profit organization that is made up of real Coloradans fighting to make sure that we can all earn a good living and have a good life no matter our zip code.

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8
Colorado Agricultural Leadership

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education
9
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors

We create economic vitality through memorable visits to the wonders of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region.

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10
Colorado Digital Health

Prime health advances health justice, equity, access quality and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Health
11
Endeavor Colorado

Endeavor colorado is a not-for-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in colorado to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region. high-impact…

Community Improvement
12
Colorado Coalition Against

Advocates against sexual assault

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is George W Clayton Trust; the most unlike its peers is La Clinica Tepeyac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1767 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. 1767 of the 2,000 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.

150
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
554
Early backer (in before they grew)
1694/1767
Grantees still filing
1284/1767
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $26,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR…COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $13,212,357 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATIONDenver Broncos Foundation: $9,300,000 · PhilanthropyDenver Broncos FoundationLIFESPAN LOCAL INC: $9,086,875 · PhilanthropyLIFESPAN LOCAL INCDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,368,426 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOU…BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $7,526,237 · PhilanthropyBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMM…IMPACT CHARITABLE: $5,525,100 · PhilanthropyIMPACT CHARITABLE+13 more: $21,747,897 · Philanthropy+13 moreDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $15,168,961 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE: $7,644,591 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $6,476,123 · Other+82 more: $126,180,386 · Other+82 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $14,486,640 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLO…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10,250,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVER…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,190,350 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNI…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,954,251 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENV…METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $3,706,167 · EducationCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,124,280 · EducationCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,018,269 · Education+27 more: $29,441,690 · Education+27 moreChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $13,297,277 · HealthChildren's H…TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $5,377,328 · HealthTRAILHEAD IN…Craig Hospital Foundation: $4,962,379 · HealthCraig Hospit…SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,326,492 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH…NOURISH COLORADO: $3,169,059 · HealthNOURISH COLO…COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC: $2,783,264 · HealthCOLORADO WES…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $2,524,212 · Health+12 more: $13,456,940 · Health+12 moreOne Good Turn: $4,891,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $4,089,500 · Human ServicesMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $2,244,325 · Human ServicesDENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $2,021,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER: $1,436,150 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $1,260,229 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INC: $1,243,157 · Human ServicesNPX CHARITABLE INC: $1,240,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE: $1,204,544 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $1,180,086 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $1,179,917 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $1,170,621 · Human ServicesThe Center for Trauma & Resilience CTR: $1,143,850 · Human Services+11 more: $9,903,861 · Human ServicesDENVER ART MUSEUM: $3,474,513 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,138,468 · Arts & CultureKIRKLAND MUSEUM OF FINE & DECORATIVE ART C/O DENVER ART MUSEU: $2,323,121 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History: $1,788,688 · Arts & CultureCREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,326,677 · Arts & CultureOPERA COLORADO: $1,240,254 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,084,860 · Arts & CultureWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $1,072,316 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $1,032,261 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $955,900 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $832,508 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $731,036 · Arts & CultureLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $691,646 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $8,670,804 · Food & NutritionPLENTIFUL: $4,000,000 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc: $1,750,390 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $1,651,167 · Food & NutritionDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $772,093 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$100,766,892Other$155,470,061Education$74,171,647Health$49,896,951Human Services$34,208,740Arts & Culture$19,692,248Food & Nutrition$16,844,454

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $26,000,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $15,168,961 over 8y, 43% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $14,486,640 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $13,297,277 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $13,212,357 over 5y, 16% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10,250,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLIFESPAN LOCAL INC: $9,086,875 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $8,670,804 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,368,426 over 8y, 42% of budgetBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $7,526,237 over 6y, 66% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $6,476,123 over 8y, 21% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE: $5,525,100 over 6y, 25% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $5,377,328 over 7y, 25% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,190,350 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $5,013,326 over 8y, 15% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $4,962,379 over 8y, 24% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,954,251 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOne Good Turn: $4,891,000 over 8y, 52% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,326,492 over 8y, 55% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $4,089,500 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetPLENTIFUL: $4,000,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $3,706,167 over 8y, 11% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3,657,649 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $3,474,513 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action: $3,424,551 over 8y, 45% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $3,241,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC: $3,221,278 over 8y, 42% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO: $3,169,059 over 7y, 98% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,138,468 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,124,280 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES: $3,030,869 over 8y, 30% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,018,269 over 6y, 39% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,972,454 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,950,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $2,937,697 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,889,785 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $2,886,171 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,805,785 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC: $2,783,264 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,687,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $2,524,212 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation: $2,435,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $2,356,133 over 8y, 19% of budgetKIRKLAND MUSEUM OF FINE & DECORATIVE ART C/O DENVER ART MUSEU: $2,323,121 over 3y, 80% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $2,291,938 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER: $2,244,325 over 8y, 33% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,203,601 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $2,117,967 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Denver Broncos Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LIFESPAN LOCAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT CHARITABLE ↗
  • Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds One Good Turn ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLENTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds The Alliance For Collective Action ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds NOURISH COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK ↗

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.

Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Caring for Denver Fou…Schlessman Foundation…Caring for Colorado F…Latino Community Foun…Caring for Colorado C…The Anschutz Foundati…Gary PhilanthropyThe Women's Foundatio…Hill Foundation Wells…Boettcher Foundation
Rose Community FoundationCO181.1× affinity540 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · The Anschutz Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Boettcher 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 The Denver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Denver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 2000 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home