Archives: Timeline

A group of Black men came together with The Denver Foundation to start our first giving circle, which was also our first giving circle for communities of color, and the…

By the end of 2013, our assets exceeded $682 million, and that year’s grants exceeded $50 million. The community foundation concept has proven very successful in Denver.

Partnering with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the City and County of Denver, we created the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative. The initiative supports organizations as they…

The past 10 years’ gifts to The Denver Foundation totaled $711,334,968.

Christine Márquez-Hudson assumed the role of our president and CEO until 2019, only the fifth paid director in the organization’s history. Márquez-Hudson worked closely with local officials, including Gov. John…

Prompted by Mayor Michael B. Hancock’s executive order “Standing with Immigrants and Refugees: A Safe and Welcoming City for All of Denver’s People,” we began providing support and funding for…

Javier Alberto Soto became our president and CEO in October 2019. Before that, Soto served for 10 years as president and CEO of The Miami Foundation. Since joining The Denver…

We moved to our new location, Casa Grande, at 10th Ave. and Grant Street to be in the heart of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and closer to many of…

Within the first month of COVID’s presence in Colorado, we raised more than $1 million to support organizations fighting the impacts of the pandemic and the systemic inequities it exposed.…

The Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund is the first Black-focused community fund established in Colorado, providing financial resources and support to Black-led and Black-serving organizations.  Since 2020, the fund…