· Public charity
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
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN PEAK DENVER | $250,000 |
| STEP GRANT | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION | $176,100 |
| SOBRIETY HOUSE INC | $42,101 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SDStep Denver2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +67%
- VHValley Hope Association3× · 2021–2023 · $325k · revenue +59%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue -100% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- AHARAPAHOE HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $850k
- 5H5280 HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -10%
- SHSAVIO HOUSEone 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.
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
North range behavioral health is dedicated to providing professional, comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services.
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…
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.
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…
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…
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ARAPAHOE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds Valley Hope Association ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds 5280 HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAVIO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA TEPEYAC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERYWORKS ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HORNBUCKLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dont Look Back Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOBRIETY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FACE IT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO ↗
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.
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.
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.
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