Pictured above: Commún, photo courtesy of Armando Geneyro
Congratulations to 54 nonprofit organizations that have been awarded a total of $2.5 million in grants during the 2024 Fall/Cycle 2 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, 61% are organizations with more than half their staff and board from communities of color.
The Denver Foundation awarded these 54 grants following a thorough review of 263 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 1 2025 will open on January 15, 2025. To learn more about the Community Grants Program, visit The Denver Foundation’s website.
2024 Community Grants Program Grantees
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
Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities Inc. – CHIC
Colorado African Cultural Center
Colorado Tenant Alliance Fund – Denver Metro Tenants Union
Colorado Village Collaborative – CVC
El Alba Cooperative
Family Promise of Greater Denver Inc.
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc. – MDHI
Native American Housing Circle
Northeast Transportation Connections
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc. – SPAN
SC Helping Foundation
Sister Carmen Community Center
Small Business Majority Foundation Inc.
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
Thrive – Transformation at Work
Westminster Community Foundation – Public Transit Access and Affordability Project