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Bep Earthwise Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$409k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 31
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Bep Earthwise Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$364k11%
FY202329$328k0%
FY202229$235k0%
FY202129$198k0%
FY202031$175kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$757kInternational$270kHealth$170kSocial Science$55kCivil Rights$50kArts & Culture$30kEducation$29kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Bep Earthwise Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Population Action International$160,00051%
International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region$160,00050%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$125,00050%
The Trust for Public Land$120,00050%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$90,00040%
Population Connection$55,00050%
Friends of the Ridgway Library$25,000514%
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc$19,00050%
The Trust for Land Restoration Inc$10,500517%
Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation$10,50053%
Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc$10,00052%
Montrose Memorial Hospital Inc$10,00010%
Ridgway-Ouray Community Council$9,5005n/a
Ouray County Food Pantry$9,0005n/a
Trail Group Inc$7,50052%
Great Old Broads for Wilderness$7,00050%
Friends of the Wright Opera House Inc$6,50051%
Western Colorado Alliance$5,50050%
Ridgway Volunteer Fire Department Inc$5,5005n/a
Ah Haa School for the Arts$5,00040%
The White Mountain School St Mary's in the Mountains$4,00040%
Ouray County Arts Association$2,2005n/a
Ouray County Performing Arts Guild Inc$2,20051%
San Juan Skijoring Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($440k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bep Earthwise Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPopulation Action International: $160,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetInternational Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPopulation Connection: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Ridgway Library: $25,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMesa County Land Conservancy Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trust for Land Restoration Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetUncompahgre Watershed Partnership a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation: $10,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetOuray Mountain Rescue Team Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMontrose Memorial Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrail Group Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGreat Old Broads for Wilderness: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Wright Opera House Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWestern Colorado Alliance: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAh Haa School for the Arts: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe White Mountain School St Mary's in the Mountains: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOuray County Performing Arts Guild Inc: $2,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Telluride Foundation · Kissinger Family Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Ralph and Ricky Lauren Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Bep Earthwise Foundation

How much does Bep Earthwise Foundation give?
Bep Earthwise Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $408,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Bep Earthwise Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (52%), International (19%), Health (12%).
Who are Bep Earthwise Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Population Action International ($160k), International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region ($160k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($125k).
Does Bep Earthwise Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bep Earthwise 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 Bep Earthwise Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, Telluride Foundation, Kissinger Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Bep Earthwise Foundation based?
Bep Earthwise Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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