Colorado · Private foundation
Bee Vradenburg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Bee Vradenburg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 24 | $73k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $76k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $95k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $135k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $214k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $143k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $163k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $167k | 69% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region | $47,134 | 5 | 3% |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs | $40,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Ormao Dance Company Inc | $28,400 | 6 | 3% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $26,667 | 1 | n/a |
| Concrete Couch | $24,500 | 4 | 9% |
| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center | $23,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Youth Documentary Academy | $22,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Manitou Art Center | $21,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Opera Theatre of the Rockies | $18,500 | 5 | 3% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($646k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bee Vradenburg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 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: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · H Chase Stone Trust B Xxxxx5009 · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Calm Foundation · The Buettner Family Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Colorado Gives Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bee Vradenburg Foundation
- How much does Bee Vradenburg Foundation give?
- Bee Vradenburg Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $72,924 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bee Vradenburg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Education (3%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Bee Vradenburg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region ($47k), The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs ($41k), Ormao Dance Company Inc ($28k).
- Does Bee Vradenburg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bee Vradenburg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bee Vradenburg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pikes Peak Community Foundation, INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak, The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation.
- Where is Bee Vradenburg Foundation based?
- Bee Vradenburg Foundation is based in CO.
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