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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
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Mile High Five Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$100k100%
FY20221$100k100%
FY20201$60k0%
FY20191$60k100%
FY20183$22k100%
FY20173$63kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$157kCommunity Improvement$100kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$33kYouth Development$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University Prep Inc$120,0002n/a
Greenlight Fund Inc$100,00010%
Food For Thought Denver$100,00014%
Vons Vision Inc$26,56713%
Emmanuel Sanders Foundation Inc$26,56719%
Heart and Hand Center$10,12511%
Greenhouse Scholars$10,00011%
Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc$6,00010%
Denver Police Foundation$6,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mile High Five Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreenlight Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetVons Vision Inc: $26,567 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEmmanuel Sanders Foundation Inc: $26,567 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHeart and Hand Center: $10,125 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGreenhouse Scholars: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetClothes to Kids of Denver Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDenver Police Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 FoundationCO15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About The Mile High Five Foundation

How much does The Mile High Five Foundation give?
The Mile High Five Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Mile High Five Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (39%), Community Improvement (25%), Food & Nutrition (25%).
Who are The Mile High Five Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: University Prep Inc ($120k), Greenlight Fund Inc ($100k), Food For Thought Denver ($100k).
Does The Mile High Five Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mile High Five Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Mile High Five Foundation based?
The Mile High Five Foundation is based in CO.

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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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