Colorado · Private foundation
Bellco 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.
- $746k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $705k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Bellco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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 | 21 | $746k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $764k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $227k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $486k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $208k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $58k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $30k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Art Museum | $530,000 | 3 | 1% |
| National Credit Union Foundation | $497,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $415,898 | 8 | 0% |
| Latino Leadership Institute | $150,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Council on Economic Education | $70,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Gowest Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Filene Research Institute Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Care and Share Inc | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bellco Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund · Gates Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bellco Foundation
- How much does Bellco Foundation give?
- Bellco Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $746,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bellco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Bellco Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Art Museum ($530k), National Credit Union Foundation ($498k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($416k).
- Does Bellco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bellco 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 Bellco Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Bellco Foundation based?
- Bellco Foundation is based in CO.
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