How much does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation give?

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation reported 173 itemized grants totaling $2,837,852, out of $4,725,212 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 112 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.

What does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Philanthropy (5%), Public Benefit (3%).

Who are Bonfils-Stanton Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Denver Art Museum ($1.1M), Wonderbound ($748k), Redline ($695k).

Does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bonfils-Stanton Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.

Where is Bonfils-Stanton Foundation based?

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 173
Itemized grants FY2025: 97
Organizations funded FY2022: 36%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 89 to 112; FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $68M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 36% of the organizations Bonfils-Stanton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $960k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	107	$2.8M	59%
FY2022	97	$3.2M	36%
FY2021	112	$4.0M	44%
FY2020	89	$2.9M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$10MPhilanthropy$1.2MPublic Benefit$691kCommunity Improvement$412kYouth Development$308kEducation$281kHuman Services$168kHealth$128kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 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	$1,050,000	3	1%
Wonderbound	$748,400	4	15%
Redline	$695,485	3	10%
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc	$610,200	4	1%
Colorado Symphony Association	$365,000	4	1%
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Inc	$362,500	4	9%
New Dance Theatre Inc	$336,800	1	5%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver	$312,200	4	3%
Colorado Ballet	$270,000	3	2%
Opera Colorado	$266,000	4	2%

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All grantees of Bonfils-Stanton Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Denver Art Museum	$1,050,000	3	1%
Wonderbound	$748,400	4	15%
Redline	$695,485	3	10%
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc	$610,200	4	1%
Colorado Symphony Association	$365,000	4	1%
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Inc	$362,500	4	9%
New Dance Theatre Inc	$336,800	1	5%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver	$312,200	4	3%
Colorado Ballet	$270,000	3	2%
Opera Colorado	$266,000	4	2%
Art Students League of Denver	$262,890	4	6%
Curious Theatre Company	$247,500	4	10%
Central City Opera House Association	$232,500	3	1%
Museo de Las Americas	$219,000	3	10%
Denver Film Society	$150,500	4	1%
Su Teatro Inc	$147,700	3	5%
Colorado Children's Chorale	$140,278	3	4%
Phamaly Theatre Company	$137,500	4	4%
Colorado Photographic Arts Center Inc	$127,500	4	10%
University of Denver	$118,700	4	0%
Denver Young Artists Orchestra Association	$118,000	3	9%
Denver Architecture Foundation	$109,500	4	8%
Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp	$107,000	4	6%
Swallow Hill Music Association	$105,000	3	1%
The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc	$105,000	3	1%
The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc	$102,500	2	20%
Denver Civic Arts Foundation	$100,000	1	n/a
Platteforum	$97,000	4	6%
Centro Cultural Mexicano Corp	$91,300	4	11%
Latino Cultural Arts Center	$84,000	4	7%
Friends of Levitt Pavilion Denver	$81,500	3	4%
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc	$75,221	3	0%
Colorado Museum of Natural History	$75,000	1	0%
Youth on Record	$75,000	4	2%
The Denver Brass Inc	$74,500	4	4%
Mizel Center for Arts and Culture	$74,500	3	1%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center	$72,750	3	0%
Buntport Theater Company	$70,000	3	9%
Friends of Chamber Music	$70,000	3	12%
Athena Project	$67,500	4	14%
Art From Ashes Incorporated	$65,000	1	18%
Denver Digerati	$64,500	3	36%
Rooted	$64,000	1	1%
Colorado Black Arts Movement	$64,000	3	35%
Think 360 Arts for Learning	$63,000	1	6%
Colorado Dragon Boat Aka Colorado Dragon Boat Festival	$62,100	4	7%
Post 1 Foundation	$60,000	1	7%
Warm Cookies of the Revolution	$56,500	2	8%
Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado	$52,500	3	11%
Augustana Arts Inc	$52,500	3	10%
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts	$52,050	4	4%
Artistico	$51,000	1	n/a
Colorado Nonprofit Association	$49,500	3	2%
St Martins Chamber Choir	$47,000	3	9%
Center for Community Wealth Building	$45,700	2	4%
Second Chance Center Inc	$45,250	2	1%
D3 Arts	$45,000	1	n/a
Cultivando	$45,000	1	4%
Black American West Museum & Herit	$42,000	3	2%
Rino Gives Back	$41,000	2	3%
Control Group Productions	$37,000	3	8%
Stories on Stage	$35,000	3	8%
Motus Theater	$34,000	2	1%
Colorado Fine Arts Association	$33,000	3	8%
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art	$32,500	2	2%
Center for Health Progress	$32,500	2	1%
Chicano Humanities and Arts Council Inc	$32,000	3	9%
Access Gallery	$32,000	3	2%
Rocky Mountain Arts Association	$32,000	3	3%
West Community Economic Development Corp	$30,000	2	1%
Grantmakers in the Arts	$30,000	3	1%
Rocky Ridge Music Center Foundation	$27,500	1	5%
Padres Unidos Inc	$27,500	1	2%
Denver Center for the Performing Arts	$25,500	2	0%
Civic Center Conservancy	$25,000	1	3%
State Historical Society of Colorado the Colorado State Museum	$25,000	1	n/a
Colorado New Style Foundation	$25,000	1	7%
Denvers Art District on Santa Fe	$24,750	2	16%
Union Hall	$24,500	2	4%
Denver Children's Choir	$24,500	2	4%
Gift of Jazz	$24,000	2	17%
Street Fraternity Inc	$22,550	2	3%
Prodigy Ventures Inc	$22,500	1	3%
Theatre Artibus	$22,000	1	17%
Inside the Orchestra	$21,000	1	6%
United for a New Economy	$20,000	2	0%
Kantorei	$20,000	1	5%
Samaritan Counseling Center	$20,000	1	1%
Downtown Denver Expeditionary School	$20,000	1	0%
Mosaic Unlimited Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Mirror Image	$20,000	1	2%
Words to Power	$20,000	1	13%
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management Inc	$20,000	1	35%
Colorado Asian Pacific United	$17,000	1	4%
Cmdance	$15,000	1	n/a
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization	$15,000	2	2%
Hmong American Association of Colorado	$15,000	1	n/a
The Family Centerla Familia	$12,500	1	1%
Filipino-American Community of Colorado	$12,000	2	n/a
Flamenco Fantasy Dance Theatre	$12,000	2	14%
Denver Fringe Festival Inc	$12,000	2	12%
Mile High Freedom Band	$12,000	2	17%
Harmony a Colorado Chorale	$12,000	2	n/a
Fiesta Colorado	$12,000	2	9%
Youth Employment Academy	$12,000	2	1%
Colorado Celebration of African American Arts and Culture	$12,000	2	3%
Colorado Korean Chorus	$12,000	2	10%
Denver March Powwow Inc	$12,000	2	6%
Tunas Mekar Incorporated	$12,000	2	22%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$10,500	1	n/a
Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc	$10,370	2	0%
Djr Memorial Baseball Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Casa Milagro Youth Solutions Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
La Raza Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Denver Theatre District Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change	$10,000	1	1%
Asian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO	$10,000	1	0%
Colorado Youth Mariachi Program	$10,000	1	n/a
Trailhead Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Museum of Food and Culture	$10,000	1	28%
Latinas First Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Chinook Fund Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Mental Health Center of Denver	$10,000	1	0%
Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver	$10,000	1	0%
Philanthropy Colorado	$10,000	1	1%
Center for African American Health	$10,000	1	0%
Colorado Asian Culture and Education Network	$10,000	1	1%
Tesoro Foundation Holly a Kinney	$7,000	1	3%
Denver Indian Center Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Bennie L Williams Spiritual Voices	$5,000	1	12%
Denver Indian Family Resource Center	$5,000	1	0%
The Fatherless Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Youth Seen	$5,000	1	n/a
Wayfaring Band Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Presenting Denver	$4,000	1	9%
Western States Arts Federation	$4,000	1	0%
Shine Music	$4,000	1	n/a
Colorado Ceasefire Outreach Inc	$4,000	1	2%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition	$4,000	1	0%
Community College of Aurora Foundation	$4,000	1	0%
Leon Co	$4,000	1	3%
Denver American Indian Festival	$4,000	1	n/a
Downtown Denver Events Inc	$4,000	1	1%
Boulder Community Broadcast Assoc Inc	$3,250	1	n/a
Association of Fundraising Professionals	$2,000	2	n/a
Graland Country Day School	$1,700	4	0%
Skinner Middle School PTO	$1,500	1	3%
Colorado Conservatory For the Jazz Arts	$1,100	2	0%
Black Cube	$1,000	1	0%
Denver Zoological Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Kent Denver Country Day School	$750	1	0%
Chaffee County Search and Rescue - North	$500	1	0%
New Era Colorado Foundation	$350	2	0%
Northwest Family Assistance Center	$300	3	0%
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts	$200	1	0%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$200	1	0%
National Park Foundation	$100	1	0%
Special Olympics Colorado	$100	1	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado Inc	$100	1	0%
Parkinson Association of the Rockies	$50	1	0%
C I R C L E	$50	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 141.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO122.9× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Redline · Boettcher Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust

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 Bonfils-Stanton Foundation

How much does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation give?: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation reported 173 itemized grants totaling $2,837,852, out of $4,725,212 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 112 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Philanthropy (5%), Public Benefit (3%).
Who are Bonfils-Stanton Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Denver Art Museum ($1.1M), Wonderbound ($748k), Redline ($695k).
Does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bonfils-Stanton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bonfils-Stanton Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Bonfils-Stanton Foundation based?: Bonfils-Stanton Foundation is based in CO.