Delaware · Private foundation
Avalanche Canyon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Avalanche Canyon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $24k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $20k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $14k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $15k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $28k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $13k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $2k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invest in Kids | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alexander Dawson Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sharing Connexion Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Three Square | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Public Schools Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brent Eley Foundation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Family Assistance Center | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invest in Kids | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alexander Dawson Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sharing Connexion Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Three Square | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Public Schools Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brent Eley Foundation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Family Assistance Center | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Maxfund Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Nevada Donor Network Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Avalanche Canyon Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Avalanche Canyon Foundation
- How much does Avalanche Canyon Foundation give?
- Avalanche Canyon Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $23,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Avalanche Canyon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Youth Development (20%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Avalanche Canyon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Invest in Kids ($29k), Alexander Dawson Foundation ($20k), Colorado Academy ($12k).
- Does Avalanche Canyon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Avalanche Canyon 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 Avalanche Canyon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Avalanche Canyon Foundation based?
- Avalanche Canyon Foundation is based in DE.
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