Colorado · Private foundation
Alpenglow Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $989k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 131
- Grants FY2024
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 114
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Alpenglow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 127 | $977k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $934k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $901k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $821k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $861k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 86 | $797k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 77 | $779k | 32% |
| FY2017 | 64 | $583k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc | $512,500 | 4 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $425,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Colorado West Regional Mental Health Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mountain Family Health Centers | $400,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Arts Campus at Willits | $332,500 | 7 | 7% |
| The Art Base | $303,940 | 8 | 31% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Aspen Chapel | $187,544 | 8 | n/a |
| Christ Church Cathedral | $180,500 | 8 | n/a |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $133,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alpenglow Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Palladium Foundation · The Denver Foundation · El Pomar Foundation
How this is measured
About Alpenglow Foundation
- How much does Alpenglow Foundation give?
- Alpenglow Foundation reported 131 grants totaling $989,431 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 114 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Alpenglow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Health (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Alpenglow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc ($513k), International Rescue Committee INC ($425k), Colorado West Regional Mental Health Inc ($400k).
- Does Alpenglow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alpenglow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alpenglow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Aspen Business Center Foundation.
- Where is Alpenglow Foundation based?
- Alpenglow Foundation is based in CO.
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