Pictured: Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition, courtesy of Armando Geneyro.
Congratulations to 53 nonprofit organizations that have been awarded a total of $2.3 million in grants during the 2024 spring cycle of 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 the 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. Of those awarded, 79% are organizations with more than half their staff and board from communities of color.
The Denver Foundation awarded these 53 grants following a thorough review of 274 proposals led by The Denver Foundation staff and members of the Advisory Committee for Community Impact, a volunteer body of more than 60 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 2 2024 will open on June 14, 2024. To learn more about the Community Grants Program, visit The Denver Foundation’s website.
2024 Community Grants Program Grantees
Adelante Community Development
Arrupe Corporate Work Study Program
Black Parents United Foundation
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition – CIRC
Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition
Denver Hybrid College – AdvanceEDU
Denver Regional Mobility and Access Council
East Denver Colfax Partnership Inc – The Fax Partnership
Elevation Community Land Trust
Emergency Family Assistance Association
Environmental Learning for Kids
Far Northeast Resource and Development Center
Focus Points Family Resource Center
Gateway Domestic Violence Services
Globeville Elyria-Swansea Coalition – GES Coalition
Metropolitan Diversity and Economic Equity Partners – Metro DEEP
Montbello Organizing Committee
NEWSED Community Development Corporation
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network – RMIAN
Roots Colorado – Dirt Coffee Bar
Urban League of Metropolitan Denver Inc.