· Private foundation
Adolph Coors Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k44 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+15 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUTURERISE | $500,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION | $437,500 |
| NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENVER | $400,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| DONORSTRUST | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT | $300,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ROCKY MOUNTAIN | $300,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $275,700 |
| STEP DENVER | $270,000 |
| ACADEMIC CONSORTIUM FOR INTEGRATIVE | $250,000 |
| COLORADO SUCCEEDS | $250,000 |
| CROSSPURPOSE | $250,000 |
| DONORSTRUST-A4O | $250,000 |
| LIBERTAS INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| EMERGENT ORDER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Adolph Coors Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
223 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2025, 138 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +85%
- TWTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +50%
- CSCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE5× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +518%
Funded once
- USUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museumone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -70%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500k
- CFCenter for American Liberty (formerly Publius Lex)one grant, 2021 · $300k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
How this is measured
324 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 324 of the 428 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · State Policy Network · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Roe Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adolph Coors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adolph Coors Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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