Colorado · Private foundation
Bardsley 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.
- $376k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $129,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Bardsley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 14 | $376k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $356k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $356k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $361k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $349k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $341k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $173k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $121k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $894,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth Tennis Foundation | $219,845 | 9 | 18% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $146,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $133,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Nathan Yip Foundation | $96,360 | 9 | 4% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $42,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Diabetes Foundation | $40,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Merrimack College | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Ballet | $21,301 | 4 | 0% |
| Opera Colorado | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $894,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth Tennis Foundation | $219,845 | 9 | 18% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $146,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $133,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Nathan Yip Foundation | $96,360 | 9 | 4% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $42,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Diabetes Foundation | $40,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Merrimack College | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Ballet | $21,301 | 4 | 0% |
| Opera Colorado | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central City Opera House Association | $15,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Youth Program | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $5,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Public Schools Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child Advocates - Denver Casa | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| St Anne's Episcopal School Inc | $2,750 | 6 | 0% |
| The Empowerment Program Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($867k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bardsley Foundation supplied at peak.
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Laff Foundation · Merle Chambers Fund · Margulf Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Bardsley Foundation
- How much does Bardsley Foundation give?
- Bardsley Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $375,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bardsley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Bardsley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($894k), Colorado Youth Tennis Foundation ($220k), Denver Zoological Foundation ($147k).
- Does Bardsley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bardsley 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 Bardsley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Bardsley Foundation based?
- Bardsley Foundation is based in CO.
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