Colorado · Private foundation
Arches 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.
- $454k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2024
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $226,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 110
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Arches Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 | 79 | $451k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 91 | $287k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 99 | $466k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 107 | $351k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 107 | $304k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 105 | $288k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 110 | $273k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 105 | $262k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbondale Clay Center | $531,000 | 8 | 30% |
| Anderson Ranch Arts Center | $104,198 | 8 | 0% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $99,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Art Base | $86,258 | 8 | 4% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $77,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Resource Advocates | $64,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $63,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Center for Public Integrity | $62,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($665k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arches Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Alpenglow Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · The Flunison Fund · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · The Thendara Foundation
How this is measured
About Arches Foundation
- How much does Arches Foundation give?
- Arches Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $454,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Arches Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Environment (32%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Arches Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carbondale Clay Center ($531k), Anderson Ranch Arts Center ($104k), The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($99k).
- Does Arches Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arches 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 Arches Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Alpenglow Foundation.
- Where is Arches Foundation based?
- Arches Foundation is based in CO.
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