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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $70,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $100,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mile High MinistriesJoshua Station$10,000
Urban Peak$10,000
Delores Project$10,000
St Francis Center$10,000
We Don't Waste$10,000
Denver Rescue Mission$10,000
Denver Inner City Parrish$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY TREE INC: $5k → 7%Rocky Mountain Refuge: $8k → 8%Denver Rescue Mission: $10k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $5k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $5k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%Mile High MinistriesJoshua Station: $10k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $10k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $8k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $5k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 14 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$340k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+25%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    METRO CARING
    7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +118%
  • WI
    WEDONTWASTE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +78%
  • CH
    Capitol Hill Community Services
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • DU
    DENVER URBAN MATTERS
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • LG
    Lazarus Gategraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +39%
  • FT
    FAMILY TREE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
2
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
3
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc

To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.

Housing & Shelter
4
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
5
Streets Hope

Street's Hope provides direct services to human trafficking survivors in Colorado. Services including housing assisstance, housing support and a range of behavioral health services.

Human Services
6
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
7
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…

Housing & Shelter
8
Julia Greeley Home Inc

Julia greeley home, inc. serves single unaccompanied women in the denver metro area between the ages of 18 and 64 who are struggling with chronic or repeated homelessness. the program fulfills existing gaps between overnight short term…

Housing & Shelter
9
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

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10
Sunshine Home Share Colorado

Sunshine home share colorado ensures quality of life for older adults and strengthens communities through a safe home-sharing model, supportive economic empowerment, and connections to resources and services.

Housing & Shelter
11
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver

As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…

Human Services
12
Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is The Gathering Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO CARING: $52,000 · OtherMETRO CARINGSt Francis Center: $23,500 · OtherSt Francis CenterTHE GATHERING PLACE: $20,500 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACETHE ST FRANCIS CENTER: $10,000 · OtherTHE ST FRANCIS CENTERDENVER URBAN MATTERS: $7,500 · OtherDENVER URBAN MATTERSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $4,550 · OtherWEDONTWASTE INC: $40,400 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INCCapitol Hill Community Services: $37,166 · Food & NutritionCapitol Hill Community…MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $35,500 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH MINISTRIESDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSIO…WARREN VILLAGE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INCLazarus Gate: $7,500 · Human ServicesLazarus GateFAMILY TREE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INCPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE NETWORK f…THE DELORES PROJECT: $36,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DELORES PROJECTURBAN PEAK DENVER: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PEAK DENVERSENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterSENIOR HOUSING OPTI…HOPE COMMUNITIES INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $25,000 · ReligionHAVEN OF HOPE: $19,450 · PhilanthropyTHE BLUE BENCH: $11,680 · Health
Other$118,050Food & Nutrition$77,566Human Services$71,000Housing & Shelter$65,500Religion$25,000Philanthropy$19,450Health$11,680

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Founda…The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Schlessman Foundation…Mile High United Way …Rose Community Founda…Caring for Denver Fou…The Colorado Health F…Hill Foundation Wells…Kenneth Kendal King F…The Anschutz Foundati…Xcel Energy Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trinity Second Century Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trinity Second Century Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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