Pictured: Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute. Photo by Armando Geneyro.
Congratulations to 103 nonprofit organizations that have been awarded a total of $4.3 million in grants through The Denver Foundation’s Community Grants Program.
Representing the seven metro Denver counties, these incredible organizations work to advance economic opportunity, education, climate and environment, housing, and transportation for people across Metro Denver.
A complete list of grant recipients is below.
The grant recipients reflect the growing diversity of our region’s nonprofit sector as well as the foundation’s ever-deepening commitment to racial equity. Organizations with more than half their staff and board from communities of color comprised 42% of the final award recipients.
The Denver Foundation awarded these 103 grants following a thorough review of 462 proposals led by The Denver Foundation staff and members of the Advisory Committee for Community Impact, a volunteer body composed of more than 50 local community, business, and philanthropic leaders. The grants range from $20,000 to $50,000. The annual organizational budgets of the grant recipients range from less than $500,000 to more than $2 million.
Through the Community Grants Program, The Denver Foundation aims to improve the lives of historically oppressed people living in Metro Denver, with a focus on people who live in low-income communities and communities of color.
The program is funded by The Fund for Denver, The Denver Foundation’s permanent endowment, built over generations to provide for community needs. Grants made through the program represent approximately 5% of the foundation’s annual grantmaking.
Grants are made through the program in two cycles per year. Applications for Cycle 1 2024 will open on January 15, 2024. To learn more about the Community Grants Program, visit The Denver Foundation’s website.
2023 Community Grants Program Grantees – Spring
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Metropolitan Diversity and Economic Equity Partners – Metro DEEP |
Young Aspiring Americans for Social and Political Activism – YAASPA
2023 Community Grants Program Grantees – Fall
50CAN INC – Transform Education Now
African Sustainable Development Foundation – ASDF
Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc. – Breakthrough
Center for Community Wealth Building
Center for Employment Opportunities
Center for Work Education and Employment – CWEE
Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores
Colorado Village Collaborative
Community Outreach Service Center Inc.
East Colfax Community Collective
Ethiopian Community Development Council – African Community Center of Denver
Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center
Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc. – SPAN
School District 12 Education Foundation – Five Star Education Foundation
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning