The Denver Foundation and our donors are honored to support a diversity of organizations and community groups who are working to foster a more just, healthy, and vibrant Metro Denver area and beyond. 

Metro Denver area — Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson counties.

Through the Community Grants Program, the foundation invests in nonprofit organizations and collaborations that are reducing disparities and promoting equity for communities, prioritizing people living in poverty, immigrants and refugees, and people of color in Metro Denver.

Funding Priorities

In response to the needs, desires, and solutions we heard from the community, we updated our Priority Funding areas as part of our new Strategic Framework. 

The Community Grants Program funds 501c3 organizations in the following priority areas:

• Economic opportunity: community wealth-building, workforce development
  

• Education- K-12 in-school reforms with an emphasis on: racial equity, school funding
  

• Environment: energy efficiency, renewable energy, air quality
  

• Housing and Homelessness: affordable housing, homelessness
  

• Transportation:  public transit accessibility and affordability

Grant Cycles:

• Spring/Cycle 1 applications open on January 15 and close March 3.

• Fall/Cycle 2 applications open June 15 and close August 3.