Colorado · Private foundation
Bacon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $481k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 41
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $248k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Bacon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 19 | $481k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $760k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $696k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $971k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.3M | 71% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| HopeWest | $670,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc | $478,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley | $398,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mesa Developmental Services | $244,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Mesa County Inc | $230,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Center for Health and Hope | $110,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Community Food Bank | $107,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Mind Springs Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mesa County Public Library Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bacon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Goodwin Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · United Way of Mesa County Inc · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Trust · St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc
How this is measured
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About Bacon Family Foundation
- How much does Bacon Family Foundation give?
- Bacon Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $481,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bacon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
- Who are Bacon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: HopeWest ($670k), Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc ($478k), Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley ($399k).
- Does Bacon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bacon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bacon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Bacon Family Foundation based?
- Bacon Family Foundation is based in CO.
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