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Max Funding

Up to $50K

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Due Date

Aug 3, 2026

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Application Type

Full Application

FUNDER DETAILS

FUNDER TYPE

Public

FUNDING FREQUENCY

Biannual Grant

FUNDING DURATION

One-Year Grant

USE OF FUNDS

Programs/Projects

RESTRICTIONS

Not Specified

ELIGIBILITY

✅ 501(c)(3) Organizations, ✅ Nonprofits with an Affiliate Sponsor

PROGRAM AREAS

Economic Development, Education, Environment, Homelessness, Housing, Climate Change, Mental Health, Youth, Job Training, Homelessness Shelter, Family Shelter, Women's Shelter, K-12 Education, Immigration

LOCATIONS

Colorado

The Denver Foundation

Denver Community Grants Program

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.

About The Grant

Requirements

  • Organizations must be 501(c)(3) nonprofits or have fiscal sponsorship. 


  • The program supports nonprofits working in the seven-county Metro Denver region.

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FOUNDATION NAME

The Denver Foundation

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FUNDER TYPE

Public

CONTACT

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