· Private foundation
The Kirchner Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| JOURNEY QUEST | $10,000 |
| WHIZ KIDS TUTORING | $6,000 |
| INDIGENOUS OUTREACH INTL | $4,000 |
| YOUTH DYNAMICS | $4,000 |
| CAPITOL HILL COMM SERVICES | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 -24% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JQJourney Quest Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +27%
- YDYouth Dynamics6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +51%
- PRPregnancy Resource Center Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- GHGOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -84%
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +47%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Make disciples of Jesus that make new disciples
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Evangelism and discipleship. Building Community. Pursuing Faith.
To educate and inspire youth academically, socially, and physically through the game of golf
To provide weekend retreats for adult males and females in the rocky mountain region
To provide youth with a non denominational summer camp in the san juan mountains of colorado
GDIA provides human service prevention treatment
Mission Church to tell the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who dont know.
A residential drug and alcohol program.
Addressing the physical and spiritual hunger of people in the Denver Metropolitan Area
To reach young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the word of god, passion for…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
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 Journey Quest Inc ↗
- Who funds WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Dynamics ↗
- Who funds GOLF HISTORY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Denver Leadership Foundation ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kirchner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirchner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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