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The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$115kFood & Nutrition$71kArts & Culture$63kEducation$48kYouth Development$47kEmployment$24kHealth$22kCrime & Legal$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$401k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,400
A PRECIOUS CHILD$25,000
CITY YEAR DENVER$15,000
PROJECT HELPING$15,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$10,505
WELLPOWER$10,000
THE GREENWAY FOUNDATION$10,000
SAFEHOUSE DENVER$6,000
EL SISTEMA COLORADO$6,000
ILLUMINATE COLORADO$6,000
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC$6,000
COLORADO FAMILY LIFE CENTER$6,000
HAVERN SCHOOL$5,871
AUGUSTANA ARTS INC$1,062
THE ACTION CENTER$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $25k → 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: $5k → 5%FAMILY TREE INC: $4k → 7%BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $4k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $4k → 5%BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $6k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $3k → 5%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $2k → 8%SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC: $1k → 8%THE LION PROJECT: $1k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 12%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $5k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $4k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $6k → 12%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $2k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 32 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
42

Total granted

$425k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationCivil 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.

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
    7× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -23%
  • MS
    MOUNT SAINT VINCENT
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • FO
    Friends of Slavens School Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
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 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
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Denver Youth Program

Youth counseling and mentoring.

Youth Development
12
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
43/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC: $17,500 · OtherCITY YEAR INCIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $11,500 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO: $10,505 · OtherThe Greenway Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $18,750 · OtherDenver Inner City Parish IncDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $24,144 · OtherDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERTHE URBAN FARM: $13,500 · OtherHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $16,000 · OtherHUNGER FREE COLORADOMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 · Other+30 more: $116,450 · Other+30 moreA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $45,750 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD…BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Human ServicesBLACK PARENTS UN…SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY…MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $5,500 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSING MO…CONNECT OUR KIDS: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLE: $4,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INC: $4,000 · Human Services+6 more: $9,500 · Human Services+6 moreVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25,400 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SE…Project Helping: $15,000 · HealthProject Helpin…Mental Health Center of Denver: $10,000 · HealthMental Health …Rise Against Suicide: $9,000 · HealthRise Against S…COLORADO METH PROJECT: $8,500 · HealthCOLORADO METH …Colorado Family Life Center Inc: $6,000 · HealthColorado Famil…Blue Channel Therapy: $5,000 · HealthBlue Channel T…MIRROR IMAGE: $5,000 · HealthMIRROR IMAGE+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFood For Thought Denver: $26,000 · EducationFood For Th…HAVERN CENTER INC: $25,871 · EducationHAVERN CENT…WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $10,000 · EducationWHIZ KIDS T…Friends of Slavens School Inc: $5,000 · EducationFriends of …COLORADO UPLIFT INC: $3,500 · EducationYouth Seen: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth SeenIlluminate Colorado: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate…Childrens Farms of America: $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentChildrens …PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS …GREATER DENVER CARES MENTORING: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTOUCH A LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $931 · Youth DevelopmentPLATTEFORUM: $25,500 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTANA ARTS INC: $7,062 · Arts & CultureEL SISTEMA COLORADO: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCMDANCE: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO HUMANITIES: $3,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ON RECORD: $2,500 · Arts & CultureDENVER 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 Rights
Other$265,849Human Services$99,750Health$84,900Education$70,371Youth Development$64,931Arts & Culture$52,062Civil Rights$32,500

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 budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $45,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $26,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC: $25,871 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPLATTEFORUM: $25,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $24,144 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Seen: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $18,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIlluminate Colorado: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% 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: $13,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetCHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAUGUSTANA ARTS INC: $7,062 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetZuma's Rescue Ranch: $6,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT PAVE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEL SISTEMA COLORADO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 1 27: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCMDANCE: $5,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmp the Cause: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Slavens School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDENVER URBAN SCHOLARS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECT OUR KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of the Sun Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBlue Channel Therapy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIRROR IMAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF JEFFERSON AND GILPIN COUNTIES: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $4,000 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 budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 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.

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 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

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 Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Groundfloor Media Foundation D/B/A Getgrounded 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%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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 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-PF 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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