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Trinity Second Century Foundation

The mission of the Trinity Second Century Foundation is to minister to needy people by providing financial resources to outreach ministries and programs in downtown Denver and the Denver metropolitan area.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$70k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Trinity Second Century Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving7$70k29%
FY20236$53k17%
FY20228$63k25%
FY202112$61k8%
FY202011$55k18%
FY201912$53k83%
FY20182$14k0%
FY20173$21kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$130kHousing & Shelter$111kHuman Services$53kHealth$44kReligion$41kInternational$8kYouth Development$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metro Caring$52,00070%
Wedontwaste Inc$40,40050%
Capitol Hill Community Services$37,16664%
The Delores Project$36,00050%
Mile High Ministries$35,50050%
Denver Inner City Parish Inc$25,00030%
St Francis Center$23,50040%
The Gathering Place$20,500440%
Haven of Hope$19,45040%
Urban Peak Denver$17,50020%
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All grantees of Trinity Second Century Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metro Caring$52,00070%
Wedontwaste Inc$40,40050%
Capitol Hill Community Services$37,16664%
The Delores Project$36,00050%
Mile High Ministries$35,50050%
Denver Inner City Parish Inc$25,00030%
St Francis Center$23,50040%
The Gathering Place$20,500440%
Haven of Hope$19,45040%
Urban Peak Denver$17,50020%
The Blue Bench$11,68030%
Denver Rescue Mission$10,00010%
The St Francis Center$10,00010%
Senior Housing Options Inc$9,00020%
Warren Village Inc$8,00020%
Denver Urban Matters$7,50011%
Lazarus Gate$7,50014%
Family Tree Inc$5,00010%
PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK$5,00010%
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc$4,55020%
Hope Communities Inc$3,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Trinity Second Century Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetro Caring: $52,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWedontwaste Inc: $40,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCapitol Hill Community Services: $37,166 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetThe Delores Project: $36,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMile High Ministries: $35,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSt Francis Center: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gathering Place: $20,500 over 4y, 40% of budgetHaven of Hope: $19,450 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Peak Denver: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Blue Bench: $11,680 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe St Francis Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSenior Housing Options Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWarren Village Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Urban Matters: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLazarus Gate: $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFamily Tree Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc: $4,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Communities Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 21.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy 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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How do I get to Trinity Second Century Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Trinity Second Century 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.

About Trinity Second Century Foundation

How much does Trinity Second Century Foundation give?
Trinity Second Century Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $70,000, out of $100,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Trinity Second Century Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (33%), Housing & Shelter (28%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Trinity Second Century Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metro Caring ($52k), Wedontwaste Inc ($40k), Capitol Hill Community Services ($37k).
Does Trinity Second Century Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trinity Second Century Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is Trinity Second Century Foundation based?
Trinity Second Century 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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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