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University of Denver
The UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the UNIVERSITY OF DENVER is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in advancing scholarly inquiry, cultivating critical and creative thought and generating knowledge.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $2,144,350 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $232,739,044 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $230,594,694 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $1,994,350 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC | $100,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $225k · revenue +197%
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +11%
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC2× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- BIBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTIONone grant, 2020 · $6.9M · revenue -5%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5.5M · revenue +72%
- MCMI CASA RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -33%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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 BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT HUTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP Colorado Schools ↗
- Who funds GEORGE W CLAYTON TRUST ↗
- Who funds Strive Preparatory Schools ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Microfinance ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROOTED ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Daniels Fund · Sturm Family Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization University of Denver 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.