Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC
DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,764,429 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($694,710). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $-768199
What Denver Civic Ventures Inc does
Mission
Dcv is a charitable public purpose organization, which mobilizes resources to implement civic design and development initiatives and to activate the downtown denver public realm.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Downtown environment and the public realm: dcv undertakes initiatives to invigorate and revitalize the center city, such as growing the tree canopy in downtown denver and the 5280 trail that will link neighborhoods and connect people by reimagining underutilized streets.
$2,337,552 spentof which $104,898 as grants$948,721 earned by the program41% of program spendingDowntown experience and festivals and events: dcv produces a wide array of community events and experiences that activate the public realm, perptuate a positive brand for the center city, and engage the community.
$1,136,395 spent$308,570 earned by the program20% of program spendingMember and civic engagement: dcv holds civic leadership programs that are designed to support leadership development and include exciting programs to educate the next generation of leaders and city builders.
$900,323 spent$597,316 earned by the program16% of program spendingEntrepreneurship and innovation: denver startup week hosts a series of events showcasing denver's entrepreneur community in tech, design, business, and social entrepreneurship. These events highlight denver's potential as an entrepreneurial center and continue to build the sense of community amongst the current entrepreneurs. Economic development, planning and mobility: dcv is committed to building an economically powerful center city and a multi-modal downtown denver that enhances transportation options for all users, connects downtown denver with surrounding center city neighborhoods and strengthens downtown denver's economic development opportunities by ensuring seamless regional connections.
$1,368,911 spentof which $364,000 as grants$491,461 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,743,181.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.9M to $4.2M (−28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 35% · 2024 23% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $448k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $178k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Colorado Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 75% · 2022 61% · 2023 78% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC has grown faster than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
- Downtown Denver Partnership Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC?
- DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,764,429 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($694,710). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,764,429 in grants to DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $694,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER CIVIC VENTURES INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing