How much did The Recovery Foundation grant in FY2024?

The Recovery Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $723,201 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is The Recovery Foundation based?

The Recovery Foundation is based in CO.

The Recovery Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

The Recovery Foundation

To operate exclusively to carry out the charitable purposes of the denver foundation, charitable organizations that are organized and operated to address mental health issues focused on substance abuse in the state of colorado, and charitable organizations that provide low-income housing in the state of colorado in a charitable manner

$723k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$250k

Largest

01What you fund

0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$426kHousing & Shelter$250kHuman Services$250kPhilanthropy$36kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$950k

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

2020

—

2021

havenwomenchildren

2022

buildwomenhavenchildrenlivessafe

2023

enablesaviotreatment

2024

sobrietylives

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$4.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

URBAN PEAK DENVER$250,000
STEP GRANT$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION$176,100
SOBRIETY HOUSE INC$42,101

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

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, 89% 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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 3 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

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

Total granted

$1.0M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+58%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

SG
STEP GRANT
2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +92%
VH
VALLEY HOPE ASSOCIATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $325k · revenue +4%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN
2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue -100% · 79% of their budget

Funded once

5H
5280 HIGH SCHOOL CORPgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +48%
TR
THE RECOVERY WORKS GRANTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +1593%
SH
SAVIO HOUSE GRANT
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +6%

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.

Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center

Axis health system (ahs) is the designated community mental health center, and a licensed substance use provider and a hrsa community health centers (fqhc) providing integrated primary care including oral health care. ahs offers a wide…

Health

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

Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Services for individuals and families for mental illness, substance use disorders, and trauma.

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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

North Range Behavioral Health

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

Health

Recovery Cafe Longmont

Recovery cafe longmont is a community of refuge and healing for people in recovery from addiction, mental health issues, homelessness, and additional life challenges. the cafe is committed to growing and nurturing our members to rebuild…

Health

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

The Recovery Foundation

Philanthropy

Tribe Recovery Homes Inc

We provide traditional housing programs and halfway houses serving the denver metro area, including denver, aurora, glendale, and utah park, co. we provide individuals in recovery from substance use disorder with structured, shame free,…

Health

Mental Health Center of Boulder County

Partnering to improve quality of life as an organization dedicated to mental health and wellness.

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Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental

To serve people with a wide range of mental health needs.

Health

Mile High Council On Alcoholism and

To provide a caring, seamless continuum of behavioral healthcare to those in need.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Clinica Tepeyac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

15/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$1,175,101Other$950,000Education$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

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.

Caring for Denver FoundationCO26.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Caring for Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

05Through 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: FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205634004 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 FRIENDS OF THE HAVEN, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Recovery Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Recovery 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.

The Recovery Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Recovery Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Recovery Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Recovery Foundation?

More from the funding graph