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The Recovery Foundation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, to perform certain functions of, and to carry out the charitable purposes of the denver foundation and other charitable organizations

$723k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHuman Services$675kEducation$426kPhilanthropy$36kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $176k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN PEAK DENVER$250,000
STEP GRANT$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION$176,100
SOBRIETY HOUSE INC$42,101
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 (FY23–23, $250k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAVIO HOUSE GRANT: $250k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of The Recovery Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Recovery Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 3 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$1.0M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SD
    Step Denver
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +67%
  • VH
    Valley Hope Association
    3× · 2021–2023 · $325k · revenue +59%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue -100% · 79% of their budget

Funded once

  • AH
    ARAPAHOE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $850k
  • 5H
    5280 HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -10%
  • SH
    SAVIO HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -19%

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
Mile High Council On Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

To bring a caring, seamless continuum of behavioral healthcare to the most vulnerable in our community - offering affordable care and housing services with focused programs to address life challenges.

Health
2
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.

Human Services
3
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

4
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
5
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
6
The Recovery Foundation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, to perform certain functions of, and to carry out the charitable purposes of the denver foundation and other charitable organizations

Philanthropy
7
North Range Behavioral Health

North range behavioral health is dedicated to providing professional, comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services.

Health
8
Step Springs

Step Springs is a subsidiary organization of Step Denver and when it opens in 2025 will be the first replication of the Step program. Step is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to…

Housing & Shelter
9
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
10
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc

To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.

Health
11
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
12
Southern Colorado Community Action Agency Inc

Southern colorado community action agency, inc.'s mission is to empower community members of all ages to recognize and reach their full potential by providing select programs and services in order to create better communities.southern…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Peak Denver. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARAPAHOE HOUSE INC — $849,996 · OtherARAPAHOE HOUSE INCStep Denver — $500,000 · OtherStep DenverJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $225,000 · OtherJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTERFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN — $200,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN+1 more — $25,000 · OtherValley Hope Association — $325,000 · HealthValley Hope AssociationLA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $250,000 · HealthLA CLINICA TEPEYACRECOVERYWORKS — $250,000 · HealthRECOVERYWORKSHORNBUCKLE FOUNDATION — $225,000 · HealthHORNBUCKLE FOUNDATIONDont Look Back Center Inc — $50,000 · HealthSOBRIETY HOUSE INC — $42,101 · Health+1 more — $33,000 · Health5280 HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 · Education5280 HIGH SC…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $176,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…URBAN PEAK DENVER — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterSAVIO HOUSE — $250,000 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $36,100 · PhilanthropyTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,799,996Health$1,175,101Education$426,100Housing & Shelter$250,000Human Services$250,000Philanthropy$36,100Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARAPAHOE HOUSE INC — $849,996 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetStep Denver — $500,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetValley Hope Association — $325,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER — $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget5280 HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSAVIO HOUSE — $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRECOVERYWORKS — $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER — $225,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHORNBUCKLE FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN — $200,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $176,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDont Look Back Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSOBRIETY HOUSE INC — $42,101 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $36,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACE IT TOGETHER INC — $33,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 FoundationCO32× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Recovery 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Recovery Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Recovery 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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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