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Gary Philanthropy is a private corporation based in DENVER, CO. The foundation received its IRS ruling in 2003. The principal officer is % Susan Maxey. It holds total assets of $191.2M. Annual income is reported at $9.8M. The foundation operates in the area of philanthropy & grantmaking. According to available records, Gary Philanthropy has made 130 grants totaling $24.2M, with a median grant of $10K. Annual giving has grown from $7M in 2021 to $17.2M in 2022. Individual grants have ranged from $30 to $8.6M, with an average award of $186K. The foundation has supported 110 unique organizations. The foundation primarily supports organizations in Colorado, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, which account for 86% of all grants. Grantmaking reaches organizations across 12 states. Contributions to this foundation are tax-deductible.
Gary Philanthropy primarily funds organizations in the area of philanthropy & grantmaking. Based on available records, the foundation has funded 130 grants. Its grantmaking reaches organizations primarily in CO, DC, MA.
Gary Philanthropy has distributed a total of $24.2M across 130 grants. The median grant size is $10K, with an average of $186K. Individual grants have ranged from $30 to $8.6M.
Gary Philanthropy typically selects its grantees rather than accepting unsolicited proposals.
Gary Philanthropy is headquartered in DENVER, CO. While based in CO, the foundation distributes grants to organizations across 12 states.
| Name | Title | Compensation | Benefits | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santhosh Ramdoss | PRES/CEO | $513K | $82K | $596K |
| Caitlin Finn | VP FIN/LEGAL | $270K | $62K | $332K |
| Ami Desai | COO | $263K | $47K | $311K |
| Chyrise Harris | VP COMM | $251K | $47K | $298K |
| Jill Hawley | VP PHILAN./P | $241K | $75K | $316K |
Total Giving
$19.1M
Total Assets
$201.5M
Fair Market Value
$201.5M
Net Worth
$198M
Grants Paid
$9.1M
Contributions
$0
Net Investment Income
$2.4M
Distribution Amount
$10.9M
Total: $87.6M
Total Grants
130
Total Giving
$24.2M
Average Grant
$186K
Median Grant
$10K
Unique Recipients
110
Most Common Grant
$1K
of 2022 grantees were first-time recipients
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| See Attached StatementSEE ATTACHED STATEMENT | Denver, CO | $8.6M | 2022 |
| Elevation Community Land Trust LlcA new, permanently affordable housing platform ? initiated by a consortium of local foundations and incubated by the nationally-recognized land preservation nonprofit Urban Land Conservancy that supports low- and moderate-income residents to attain and sustain homeownership. The self-sustaining platform will help mitigate housing displacement, keep families in place and offer solutions to address access to multiple social determinants of health. In its first 5-years, Elevation will acquire and d | Denver, CO | $1M | 2021 |
| Invest In KidsFunding for the launch of a new evidence based program in Colorado to serve high need families with home-based mental health services. Launch and eventually scale a program designed to serve the children and families facing the effects of trauma. | Denver, CO | $500K | 2021 |
| Community College Of Denver FoundationScale up the successful WORKNOW collective impact model by including new service partners, employer partners and construction training curriculum tools. Further expand job creation for 30,000 underemployed, low skilled workers and entrepreneurs in communities affected by the upcoming large projects. |
| Chris Watney |
| BOARD CHAIR |
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| David Younggren | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Ashley Hill | SECRETARY | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Kelley | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Tom Gougeon | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Nancy Gary | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Robert Gary | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Luis Durate Thru 1023 | VICE CHAIR | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Holly Vasquez Horvath | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Greg Moore | MEMBER | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Denver, CO |
| $490K |
| 2021 |
| Colorado Children'S CampaignInvestment in policy and advocacy in early childhood - Investing in the Colorado Children's Campaign will support the transformation of Colorado's early childhood system. | Denver, CO | $345K | 2021 |
| Rose Community FoundationRose willl serve as the fiscal sponsor for the pooled philanthropic funding for the Early Childhood Workforce Innovation Grants. Rose will allow the partners to seek out additional funders for this project because they can add their funds to this pool. | Denver, CO | $315K | 2021 |
| Denver Public Safety Youth ProgramsRecoverable grant turned into a reg grant- An upstream, preventative approach to provide early support for runaway youth likely to become involved in state-funded juvenile justice systems. The primary project goal was to prevent or reduce juvenile justice and/or child welfare involvement of project participants with short-term success measures focusing on participant engagement rates. | Denver, CO | $295K | 2021 |
| Servicios De La RazaServicios de la Raza (SLDR) is the largest Latino-led nonprofit in Colorado, with a focus on direct service provision in physical and mental health as well as advocacy at the state level. Given the vast array of services they provide, and the wide range of communities in which they operate, we envision SDLR as an important partner across all three of our outcome areas and a critical service provider voice in our overall advocacy portfolio | Denver, CO | $250K | 2021 |
| Tennyson Center For Children At Colorado Christian HomeTo support the implementation of Rewiring Child Welfare, a project to redirect how Colorado's child welfare system funding is allocated. | Denver, CO | $200K | 2021 |
| Early Milestones ColoradoThis is the action portion of the initiative with local and state projects funded through a pooled fund. Improve the recruitment, retention and compensation of the ECE Workforce | Denver, CO | $185K | 2021 |
| Mile High United Way IncThis investment funds the development of the Performance Imperative capacity building platform for nonprofits that are poised to increase their organizational effectiveness. The five year expected impact of this initiative is increased impact of targeted nonprofits and the resulting positive impacts on low-income children and families seeking their services. | Denver, CO | $181K | 2021 |
| Colorado Fiscal InstituteCFI is a long-standing investee of Gary Community Investments and has provided critical policy analysis and support in the areas of tax and fiscal policy. Especially as we gear up and look ahead to the 2022 and 2024 ballots as a way of helping to rebuild from the COVID pandemic, we believe CFI will provide the necessary thought leadership across all of our outcome areas as we think about how to fund the systemic changes required to meet our outcome area goals. - time Executive Director, Carol He | Denver, CO | $170K | 2021 |
| Bell Policy CenterTo support the Family Economic Mobility policy research infastructure. | Denver, CO | $150K | 2021 |
| University Of Denver- Colorado Evaluation & Action LabTo support the RISE Fund, a partnership between Gary and Gov. Jared Polis, is one of Gary's critical investments in addressing COVID-19 learning loss. With this proposed investment, and in partnership with the State, The University of Denver's Colorado EvaluationLab will evaluate 13 programs funded by the RISE Fund for their impact. | Denver, CO | $150K | 2021 |
| Jefferson County Human ServicesNew addition to the "housing as a platform" place-based portfolio stressing the integration of services to support family economic security as a whole. Funding partnership with Kresge Foundation to promote innovative structure in family led two-generation human service delivery. Learning opportunity to discover and document "best practices" for integrating human service delivery with housing. Document the "collective acceleration" process (uncharted) for metrics to promote sustainability through | Golden, CO | $150K | 2021 |
| The Community FirmPart 2 of this pilot opportunity has the potential to demonstrate a new model of financial support to prevent evictions for low-income families to help bridge them to full financial sustainability through the public rental assistance funds they will be administering. Brief Expected Impact - It's expected that this pilot opportunity will demonstrate the effectiveness of negotiated rental debt and no-interest loans enabling low-income families avoid eviction. | Denver, CO | $100K | 2021 |
| Colorado Center On Law & Policy (Formerly Denver Foundation)Mile high Connects is a community driven collaborative of community organizers, philanthropic institutions, non-profit organizations, policy advocates, and financial Institutions that works to dismantle barriers to racial, economic, environmental, and health equity by ensuring all community residents have access to quality transit and mobility, housing, and economic opportunity. Brief Expected Impact - MHC aims to improve the lives of low-income (60% AMI and below)residents/communities, communit | Denver, CO | $100K | 2021 |
| Building A Better ColoradoBBCO's true value proposition is its ability to galvanize consensus among grasstops leaders who can serve as trusted and motivated messengers in subsequent advocacy campaigns. BBCO's theory of action is that the pathway to a better Colorado lies in engaging civic leaders in communities across the state in a constructive | Denver, CO | $100K | 2021 |
| Parent PossibleFunding to conduct coalition strengthening, advocacy and coordinated data collection. Strengthen services to families, improve coordination and efficiency among program models, advance efforts to expand home visiting programming, and focus on investment task force recommendations, state agency planning and federal advocacy. | Denver, CO | $100K | 2021 |
| Council For A Strong AmericaMulti year grant to support general operations, including membership recruitment, member advocacy, media coverage, and state-specific report generation. Brief Expected Impact - Council for a Strong America members will help advance policy successes by lending their voices in support of priority issues and helping cultivate the support of conservative policymakers | Washington, DC | $93K | 2021 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development CenterWorking to abolish historical and present inequalities and inequities in education that have prevented a majority of Black, Brown, and poor children from being prepared for the choice of college without remediation. FaithBridge has primarily done CNDC work with communities of Color in NE Denver and North Aurora with capacity building with our advocacy/partnership efforts to ensure that we have the staff that is equipped to continue to educate and be a catalyst for change. | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| Colorado Cross-Disability CoalitionInvestment in policy and advocacy in early childhood - Investing in the Colorado Children's Campaign will support the transformation of Colorado's early childhood system. | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| CllaroAlthough our initial advocacy portfolio was remarkably diverse, and although 50% of the organizations are led by leadership who identify as Latino, we only had one organization that was explicitly focused on organizing within the Latino community. CLLARO is exclusively focused on the Latino community across the state, with a strong base of support in the Far Northeast of Denver and Aurora, and their organizing and policy work spans our outcome areas of Youth Success and Family Economic mobility. | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| Great Education Colorado FundAlthough our initial advocacy portfolio had strong representation in communities of color across Denver and Arapahoe counties, we were underweight in suburban parts of Adams, Arapahoe,and Jefferson counties that are especially important in statewide elections. GEC has a statewide network of ~3,000 volunteers, they are especially strong in swing suburban counties, and they have proven their efficacy at voter contact in the Proposition EE and Amendment B campaigns in the last election cycle. In ad | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| Climb Higher ColoradoNew to Denver; employer-driven model providing alternative pathways in technology for low/middle income students. 70% placement rate in livable, full-benefit jobs; all employer partners are contracted @4-5K/placement. Committed to growing from 30-300 in next 2-3 years. | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| Mile High Workshop IncPartnering with local manufacturing employers to provide re-entry employment to previously incarcerated workers. Just purchased a pillow company to generate additional earned-income. Requesting assistance w/ employer partners and business model sustainability. | Aurora, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| Activate Work IncPartnering with employers to provide alternative job training pathways in technology and healthcare for low and middle income students. Committed to shared learning with Gary and plan to scale in 2022. Cohorts of 30, 15 week program, 80% employer placement in livable wage, full-benefit jobs. Activate IT is the most selective of alternative training programs in our cohort, recruiting from Cross Purpose, MiCasa, Warren Village, etc. | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| New Era Colorado FoundationNew Era Colorado (NEC) is the state's singular advocacy organization that explicitly focuses on youth issues and youth election turnout. Founded by now-prominent elected officials State Sen. Steve Fenberg, State Rep. Leslie Herod, and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (among others), NEC has demonstrated an impressive ability to register and turnout youth in election years and in developing youth-focused policy and advocacy agendas in intervening years. We envision NEC as an important partner in bringing you | Denver, CO | $75K | 2021 |
| Reach Out And Read ColoradoOrganizational support for program delivery and scaling strategy to increased literacy success and school readiness | Denver, CO | $70K | 2021 |
| CityuniteFacilitating 10 business owners to implement and measure impact of innovative solutions to employee income, debt, and wealth-building. | Broomfield, CO | $70K | 2021 |
| Trailhead InstituteCEEMI is building a partnership of public, private, and philanthropic stakeholders to scale effective, rigorously evaluated postsecondary and workforce development programs. The goal, via a rigorous evidence-based strategy, is to measurably and sustainably increase wages and postsecondary credential attainment,help Coloradans with low incomes and barriers to employment achieve economic self-sufficiency,build more equitable CO | Denver, CO | $65K | 2021 |
| University Of Colorado FoundationMatch for national Early Educators Investment Collaborative -4 partners received a $2.3M grant and have some additional needs to complete the match | Denver, CO | $53K | 2021 |
| Small Business Majority Foundation IncPartner with other business groups, organizations and experts to promote awareness on how small businesses are impacted by healthcare reform, clean energy, access to credit and other key issues. Effective promotion of rules, regulations and legislation that benefit low income entrepreneurs and their families. | Washington, DC | $53K | 2021 |
| Brothers Redevelopment IncSupporting two generation family focused wrap-around services for an affordable housing complex in Northwest Aurora to meet the needs of families. Outcomes such as health and wellness, financial stability, education success, and social capital are improved for tenants. | Denver, CO | $52K | 2021 |
| ReschoolSupport for Summer Demonstration Project of LEAP concept | Denver, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| Colorado SucceedsCO Succeeds proposes to support ECE advocacy over the next three years as part of the Bold Steps Forward Portfolio. Bring the business voice to ECE advocacy. | Littleton, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| Energize ColoradoSupport a child care program accelerator with new and expanded child care programs and improved business models | Boulder, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| Epic ColoradoTo support advocacy efforts and engagement with the business community, internal capacity and innovative strategies that address the economics of child care. Leverage business community and organizational expertise to support legislation and engagement activities in 2022. | Denver, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| Young African Americans For Social And Political Activism (Yaaspa)2021 Advocacy Portfolio Investment . We envision YAASPA as an important partner for all of our Youth Success outcome area goals, and potentially also for our Family Economic Mobility self-sufficiency income goal. | Denver, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| The Urban Leadership Foundation Of Colorado2021 Advocacy Portfolio Investment .We envision ULF as an important partner across all three of our outcome areas (but especially Family Economic Mobility) | Denver, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environmenttransition funding to support efforts established by Get Ahead Colorado's longstanding tax credit campaign to help reduce child poverty and improve health outcomes for Colorado's children and families | Denver, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| City Year IncSupport for City Year's efforts to deliver programming and demonstrate the impact of delivering services in a high school feeder pattern with improved student success | Denver, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| 50can Inc2021 Advocacy Portfolio Investment . We envision TEN as an important partner on our School Readiness ECE goal, our entire Youth Success outcome area, and potentially our entire Family Economic Mobility outcome area, given their deep work with families. | Washington, DC | $50K | 2021 |
| Community Investment AllianceCultivating a pipeline of non-traditional affordable housing developments in Denver Metro Area. Assisting w/ pre-development, regulatory process, capacity-building etc. Recently started her own org after departing Interfaith Alliance Land Campaign. Potential to partner with CrossPurpose on creative housing co-location idea. | Loveland, CO | $50K | 2021 |
| Co Pfs At Risk Youth- Mst Project (Co Seminary University Of Denver)Support the expansion of Multi-Systemic therapy (MST), an evidence-based intervention for youth at risk of continued involvement in the juvenile justice system | Denver, CO | $47K | 2021 |
| Impact CharitableTo support the Denver Basic Income Project. | Denver, CO | $25K | 2021 |
| Community First FoundationNon-Grant Contribution | Arvada, CO | $25K | 2021 |
| Barton Institute For Community ActionPart of the ECE Redesign effort to have the data and IT components ready. By having clear direction of what we have and what we need from our data systems, we can advocate for invesstment of federal funds and stimulus dollars that will enable us to build those systems as part of the ECE redesign. | Denver, CO | $22K | 2021 |
| Tsne MissionworksGeneral operating funds to support the ongoing membership development and investment pipeline to support continued investment in the early childhood sector and engagement of individuals of wealth. | Boston, MA | $20K | 2021 |
| The Early Childhood Partnership Of Adams CountyTo support the final grant cycle of Constellation Philanthropy before their 2021 sunsetting date. | Thornton, CO | $16K | 2021 |
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