Professional Advisors


We are your partners in client service.


Your clients want to have an impact with their charitable giving. The Denver Foundation can help.

With nearly 100 years of service to generous people, The Denver Foundation offers a variety of charitable giving vehicles to help your clients achieve their financial, charitable, and business goals.

To learn more, please contact Ben Perry, Senior Director of Philanthropic Investments, bperry@denverfoundation.org, 303.885.7202.

“The Denver Foundation is a trusted advisor, an ally, and a partner in this journey of working with clients. I know that when I put my clients in The Denver Foundation’s hands, they are going to be supported and given sage advice as to how their philanthropic dollars are best used.”


Michelle Adams
The Law Office of Michelle Adams, Author of Family Strong: 7 Gifts for a Lasting Legacy

Services for your clients


We make connections in the community. As the largest and most experienced community foundation in the Rocky Mountain West, we have been connecting generous donors with causes they care about for nearly 100 years.

We understand your clients’ needs and how to help them make a meaningful impact through their philanthropy. We show strong investment performance. We’ve had a strong investment performance in up and down markets. With advisor managed funds, donors can also benefit from the investment management services of their financial advisor.

We make it easy for your clients to give a wide variety of assets with maximum tax advantage. Your clients can give cash, appreciated stocks, real estate, or other assets. We specialize in gifts of complex assets, and your clients will receive the maximum tax deductibility for their gifts.

We offer unique, exclusive donor events and programs. We host frequent events and programs just for donors on topics important to the community, including climate and the environment, racial equity, and cryptocurrency. We uphold the highest ethical and legal standards.

We are transparent, sharing our finances and reports with our donors and the people and communities we serve. We meet and exceed national standards for community foundations.

Our Investment Performance


Our investment performance has been consistently strong, in bad times as well as good. The Denver Foundation’s Investment Committee consists of professionals who bring a diversity of experiences and volunteer their time to steward the Foundation’s assets on behalf of the residents of Metro Denver.

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