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· Public charity
The Mile High Five Foundation
To improve the lives of Colorado's at-risk youth population by supporting non-profit organizations that provide services in the areas of children's health, mental health and education.
$100k
Granted FY2023
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Grants
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Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Education$137kCommunity Improvement$100kHuman Services$39kCrime & Legal$10kOther$120k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2022
impact
2023
food
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- Food for Thought$100,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–18, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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The Denver Foundation
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
Philanthropy
2
Denver Scholarship Foundation
To empower dps students to enroll in and graduate from college. (full mission on schedule o)
Education
3
Denver Justice High School
Denver justice high school's mission is to provide a college preparatory education for all enrolled students. justice high school targets students who are chronically truant, who have been unsuccessful in the traditional school setting, or…
Education
4
Denver Police Activities League
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
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Denver Press Club
Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…
Arts & Culture
6
Children's Hospital Colorado
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Health
7
Colorado Gives Foundation
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen.
Philanthropy
8
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
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Denver Kids Inc
Provides professional educational counseling and volunteer mentors for at- risk students in the denver public schools system with the goal of keeping them in school.
Education
10
Ingenuity Prep
Ingenuity prep public charter school prepares its students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders.
Education
11
Greenwood Village Police Foundation
The purpose of the organization is to promote public safety by providing educational programs, scholarships, equipment, support and assistance to the personnel and families of the Greenwood Village Police Department in Greenwood Village,…
Food & Nutrition
12
Denver Academy of Torah
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc and the most unlike its peers is University Prep 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$136,567Other$120,000Community Improvement$100,000Human Services$38,567Crime & Legal$10,125
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
The Denver FoundationCO17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation The Mile High Five 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Emmanuel Sanders Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
high risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 813729299 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Emmanuel Sanders Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Mile High Five Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Mile High Five Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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