Colorado · Private foundation
Big Blue Sky 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.
- $297k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Big Blue Sky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $197k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $295k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $139k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $366k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $458k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $434k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $349k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $569k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of California | $500,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Aspen Hope Center | $200,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc | $114,900 | 4 | 1% |
| Aspen Education Foundation | $114,600 | 5 | 2% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass | $75,230 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Big Blue Sky Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Aspen Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Castaways Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Arches Foundation · Robins Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Michael S Rosen Foundation · Freedman Family Foundation · Steven & Kiki Esrick Dream Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Big Blue Sky Foundation
- How much does Big Blue Sky Foundation give?
- Big Blue Sky Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $297,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Big Blue Sky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (29%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Big Blue Sky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents of the University of California ($500k), Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($450k), Regents of the University of California ($300k).
- Does Big Blue Sky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Big Blue Sky 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 Big Blue Sky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Castaways Foundation.
- Where is Big Blue Sky Foundation based?
- Big Blue Sky Foundation is based in CO.
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