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The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$65kHuman Services$61kYouth Development$58kArts & Culture$45kCivil Rights$33kHealth$29kReligion$24kEmployment$24kCrime & Legal$21kOther$158k
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$368k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH SEEN$7,500
HAVERN SCHOOL$7,500
MOUNTAIN IN MY MIND LLC$5,000
LAKEWOOD HOUSING CORP METROWEST HOUSING$3,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN CASA OF BOULDER CO$2,500
FOOD FOR THOUGHT DENVER$2,500
YOUTH ON RECORD$2,500
AURORA ARAPAHOE BATTERED WOMEN'S CENTER$2,500
CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES$2,500
CHILD ADVOCATES-DENVER CASA$2,500
DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$2,500
COBBLED STREETS$2,500
CITY YEAR DENVER$2,500
TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN$2,500
DENVER INNER CITY PARISH$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COUNTIES: $3k → 10%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $5k → 4%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $4k → 5%FAMILY TREE INC: $4k → 7%BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $4k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $3k → 5%BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $2k → 8%SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC: $1k → 8%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 12%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $5k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $4k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$364k · 30 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
30

Total granted

$364k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+16%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FF
    Food For Thought Denver
    6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +9%
  • P
    PLATTEFORUM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +8%
  • DC
    DENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -23%
  • MS
    MOUNT SAINT VINCENT
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • PE
    PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Denver Police Activities League Inc

The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.

Youth Development
2
Denver Area Youth Services

To promote and provide a continuum of human services to youth and their families.

Human Services
3
Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

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4
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
5
Friends of the Children - Colorado

Friends of the Children - Colorado has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
6
Colorado Casa Inc

Colorado CASA is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen local CASA organizations and advocate for children in the child welfare system.

Civil Rights
7
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance

To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.

Crime & Legal
8
Denver Youth Program

Youth counseling and mentoring.

Youth Development
9
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
10
Denver Children's Choir

To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.

Arts & Culture
11
Vive

VIVE addresses the health equity and wellness needs of many of Colorados low-income youth, who face significant health disparities and often lack access to engaging physical activity and health education.

Youth Development
12
Elevating Connections

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.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Girls On the Fly. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr14%8%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/60
the rest of the field
13%
1,567/11,626

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/59
Grantees still filing
38/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $11,500 · OtherDenver Inner City Parish Inc — $18,750 · OtherDenver Inner City Parish IncDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $23,656 · OtherDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERTHE URBAN FARM — $12,500 · OtherTHE URBAN FARMHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $16,000 · OtherHUNGER FREE COLORADOMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 · Other+30 more — $116,950 · Other+30 moreFood For Thought Denver — $26,000 · EducationFood For Thoug…HAVERN CENTER INC — $20,000 · EducationHAVERN CENTER …WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC — $10,000 · EducationWHIZ KIDS TUTO…Friends of Slavens School Inc — $5,000 · EducationFriends of Sla…COLORADO UPLIFT INC — $3,500 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIF…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $20,750 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CH…BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Human ServicesBLACK PARENTS…MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $5,500 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSING…THREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS A…CONNECT OUR KIDS — $5,000 · Human ServicesCONNECT OUR K…PCS FOR PEOPLE — $4,500 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPL…FAMILY TREE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE I…DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $2,500 · Human ServicesCASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties — $2,500 · Human Services+2 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesYouth Seen — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth SeenChildrens Farms of America — $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentChildrens Fa…Illuminate Colorado — $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate C…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS ED…GREATER DENVER CARES MENTORING — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTOUCH A LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentPLATTEFORUM — $25,500 · Arts & CulturePLATTEFOR…AUGUSTANA ARTS INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTANA…CMDANCE — $5,500 · Arts & CultureCMDANCECOLORADO HUMANITIES — $3,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO …YOUTH ON RECORD — $2,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ON …DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD — $17,000 · Civil RightsCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA — $7,500 · Civil RightsCASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES — $4,500 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $3,500 · Civil RightsRise Against Suicide — $9,000 · HealthCOLORADO METH PROJECT — $8,500 · HealthMIRROR IMAGE — $5,000 · HealthBlue Channel Therapy — $5,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$226,856Education$64,500Human Services$60,750Youth Development$58,000Arts & Culture$45,000Civil Rights$32,500Health$28,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFood For Thought Denver — $26,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPLATTEFORUM — $25,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $23,656 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC — $20,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Seen — $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc — $18,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD — $17,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetChildrens Farms of America — $16,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN FARM — $12,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIlluminate Colorado — $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRise Against Suicide — $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO METH PROJECT — $8,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX — $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA — $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetZuma's Rescue Ranch — $6,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT PAVE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUGUSTANA ARTS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmp the Cause — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 1 27 — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCMDANCE — $5,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of the Sun Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCONNECT OUR KIDS — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMIRROR IMAGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDENVER URBAN SCHOLARS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Slavens School Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBlue Channel Therapy — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES — $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HUMANITIES — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE FLY — $3,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoots Elementary School — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DENVER CARES MENTORING — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOUCH A LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSECOR — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …The Anschutz Foundati…The Denver Children's…Caring for Colorado F…Anschutz Family Found…Ima FoundationCaring for Denver Fou…Xcel Energy Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO66.3× affinity39 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 · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Ima Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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