Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 239 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,111,933 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($13,212,357). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$601M
Recipients
3,044
Contributions on record
$23M
Donors on record
238
Payments out run 26.0x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Colorado Dental Service Inclocalportfolio match
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Hilb Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 59 funders, grant income fell $777k → $756k.
24 of 239 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 239 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
66% of COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.8M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 239 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Colorado Dental Service Inclocalportfolio matchCO · funds 87 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- Hilb Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bruce and Phipps Menk Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merle Chambers Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zoma Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mollie Mitchell & John Wilson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schlessman Foundation Incshared fundersCO · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
- Chc Creating Healthier Communitiesshared fundersVA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 169 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Community Foundation Boulder Countyshared fundersCO · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cff Arvada LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 239 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,111,933 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($13,212,357). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 239 organizations giving $23,111,933 in grants to COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,212,357 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 239funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing