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The Denver Rotary Club Foundation

The mission of the denver rotary club is to participate actively in the diverse life of its community through the grants it makes each year.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$513kCommunity Improvement$83kArts & Culture$78kInternational$68kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kPhilanthropy$34kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $163,796, the rows itemized in this filing. The $218,431 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,635 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
$16,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTARY CLUB OF DENVER$63,694
DENVER KIDS INC$55,502
COLORADO ART AWARDS$16,600
COMMUNITY RESOURCES$10,000
HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY CLUB$10,000
EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC$8,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROTARY CLUB OF CASTLE PINES FOUNDATION: $6k → 3%COLORADO ART AWARDS: $17k → 10%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of The Denver Rotary Club Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Denver Rotary Club 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$665k · 9 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$665k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-7%

Still filing today

89%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • DK
    DENVER KIDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $431k · revenue +33%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF DENVER
    2× · 2023–2025 · $73k · revenue +13% · 26% of their budget
  • EI
    ETM-COLORADO INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • RF
    ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +11%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Denver Kiwanis Foundation
Community Improvement
2
The Denver Rotary Club Foundation

The mission of the denver rotary club is to participate actively in the diverse life of its community through the grants it makes each year. the foundation's grants emphasize its belief in the promise and value of youth and education,…

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3
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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4
Rotary Intl District 5280 Charitable Foundation

Rotary int'nl district 5280 charitable foundation provides humanitarian service to local & international communities; encourages peace in the world; provides programs and scholarships to our local community.

Education
5
Rotary Club of Fort Collins Charities Inc

Support of local charities

Community Improvement
6
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
7
Think 360 Arts for Learning

To engage coloradans of all ages in innovative arts education programming that inspires creativity, builds community, & advances equity.

Arts & Culture
8
Rocky Mountain Rotary Youth Exchang

Promote international peace and understanding through educational exchange opportunities for high school youth.

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9
Pta Colorado Congress
Education
10
Colorado Future Farmers of America Foundation

The colorado ffa foundation seeks resources - human, financial and in-kind - to support agricultural education in colorado, including students )ffa, ata and cyfea), teachers (cvata) and alumni.

Youth Development
11
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…

Human Services
12
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Denver; the most unlike its peers is Harambee Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER KIDS INC: $430,774 · EducationDENVER KIDS INCCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $22,000 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF DENVER: $73,243 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF DENVERFULL PASSAGECOLLEGE COACH INC: $30,000 · OtherFULL PASSAGECOLLEGE COA…ROTARY FOUNDATION: $28,650 · OtherROTARY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…HIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY CLUB: $10,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY …ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $8,863 · OtherCOLORADO SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING: $6,500 · Other+3 more: $15,400 · Other+3 moreTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $87,293 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FO…Harambee Inc: $17,776 · InternationalHarambee IncETM-COLORADO INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureETM-COLORA…Colorado Art Education Association: $26,000 · Arts & CultureColorado A…ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE F…THE DENVER ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DENVER…COLORADO ART AWARDS INC: $16,600 · Human ServicesROTARY CLUB OF CASTLE PINES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMake A Chess Move: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $11,600 · Community ImprovementEARTHLINKS INC: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Education$452,774Other$182,656International$105,069Arts & Culture$79,000Human Services$22,600Youth Development$20,000Community Improvement$17,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $430,774 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $87,293 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF DENVER: $73,243 over 2y, 26% of budgetETM-COLORADO INC: $31,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $22,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMake A Chess Move: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHarambee Inc: $17,776 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOLORADO ART AWARDS INC: $16,600 over 1y, 42% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $11,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDS RANCH ROTARY CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTHE DENVER ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF CASTLE PINES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WHEAT RIDGE FOUNDATION dba WHEAT RIDGE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% 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.

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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Denver FoundationCO16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rotary Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Denver Rotary Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Denver Rotary Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Denver Rotary Club Foundation 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.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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