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Bonfils-Stanton Foundation at a glance

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Bonfils-Stanton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
173
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 173 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 173 grants below total $2,837,852, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,725,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,887,360 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k101 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $792k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RedLine Contemporary Art Center$200,000
Colorado Symphony Association$60,000
Rooted$60,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$60,000
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance$60,000
West Colfax Community Development Corp$52,000
Denver Film Society$50,000
ArtistiCO Inc$50,000
Latino Cultural Arts Center$50,000
Boulder Chamber Orchestra of Colorado$50,000
The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary$50,000
Opera Colorado$50,000
RedLine Contemporary Art Center$45,000
Youth on Record$40,000
RedLine Contemporary Art Center$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Second Chance Center: $18k → 8%The Family CenterLa Familia: $13k → 11%Second Chance Center Inc: $18k → 8%Asian Pacific Development Center Of Colorado: $10k → 8%Second Chance Center Inc: $10k → 8%Second Chance Center Inc: $250 → 8%United For A New Economy: $10k → 10%United For A New Economy: $10k → 10%Denver Indian Center Inc: $5k → 12%Wayfaring Band Inc: $5k → 12%Denver Indian Family Resource Center: $5k → 12%Presenting Denver: $4k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 91 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
82

Total granted

$9.8M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +72%
  • W
    WONDERBOUND
    4× · 2020–2025 · $748k · revenue +38%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • ND
    NEW DANCE THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $337k · revenue +55%
  • CP
    Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre
    one grant, 2020 · $215k
  • DC
    DENVER CIVIC ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
2
Flamenco Denver

The mission of Flamenco Denver is to train, educate and share with the broad community the discipline, power and joy of flamenco as a living art form. Through ongoing classes, interactive outreach to schools and high quality performances,…

Arts & Culture
3
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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4
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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5
Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts

To inspire and connect community members of all ages by providing access to the best of the world's music through education and performance.

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado Artists in Recovery

Colorado Artists in Recovery utilizes recovery-oriented principles to provide a safe, encouraging, and inclusive environment for people affected by substance use and mental health. Through our workshops and events we nurture their creative…

Arts & Culture
7
The Cultural Caravan

The Cultural Caravan brings together locally-owned businesses, social-serviced nonprofits, municipal organizations, and local artists to make Boulder more vibrant, inclusive, culturally active, and economically vital by presenting…

Arts & Culture
8
Durango Arts Center Inc

The Durango Arts Center ("DAC") enriches the community through innovative visual and performing art, and arts education. DAC advances appreciation and participation in the arts as a cultural leader in the region.

Arts & Culture
9
Boulder County Arts Alliance Inc

Since 1966, BCAA acts as a catalyst to incubate, stimulate and sustain a thriving arts community in Boulder County. BCAA commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive and equitable Boulder…

Arts & Culture
10
Colorado Music Bridge

Colorado nbsp;music nbsp;bridge nbsp;provides nbsp;access nbsp;to nbsp;inclusive nbsp;modern nbsp;music nbsp;education nbsp;programs nbsp;curricular nbsp;resources nbsp;and nbsp;professional nbsp;development

Arts & Culture
11
The Center for the Arts

The center for arts, a home for arts and culture, offers engaging opportunities and educational experiences to enrich and expand the life of our community.

Arts & Culture
12
Fort Collins Mural Project

Our mission is to collaborate with local artists and businesses to promote contemporary art in public spaces in Fort Collins, Colorado. FCMP is focused on providing opportunities for underrepresented and emerging artists in Colorado.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Skinner Middle School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

160 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 160 of the 239 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/160
Grantees still filing
116/160
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER ART MUSEUM: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMWONDERBOUND: $748,400 · Arts & CultureWONDERBOUNDRedline: $695,485 · Arts & CultureRedlineROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $610,200 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INCCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $365,000 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $336,800 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $312,200 · Arts & Culture+62 more: $4,090,778 · Arts & Culture+62 moreRedLine Contemporary Art Center: $359,792 · OtherRedLine Contemporary Art C…Cleo Parker Robinson Dance: $292,350 · OtherCleo Parker Robinson DanceART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $262,890 · OtherART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DEN…Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre: $215,000 · OtherCleo Parker Robinson Dance…COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC: $127,500 · Other+90 more: $1,992,044 · Other+90 moreTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $1,006,742 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVE…Rose Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyRose Comm…WARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION: $56,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $362,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $118,700 · EducationDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP: $107,000 · EducationROOTED: $64,000 · EducationBAROQUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLORADO: $52,500 · EducationSTORIES ON STAGE: $35,000 · Education+3 more: $40,370 · EducationTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $72,750 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $49,500 · Community ImprovementCULTIVANDO: $45,000 · Community ImprovementWEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for African American Health: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP: $91,300 · Youth DevelopmentART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSecond Chance Center Inc: $45,250 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $20,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHmong American Association of Colorado: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA: $12,500 · Human ServicesAsian Pacific Development Center of COLORADO: $10,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FATHERLESS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWAYFARING BAND INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$8,208,863Other$3,249,576Philanthropy$1,203,242Education$780,070Community Improvement$207,250Youth Development$183,300Human Services$146,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $1,050,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $1,006,742 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWONDERBOUND: $748,400 over 4y, 15% of budgetRedline: $695,485 over 3y, 10% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $610,200 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $365,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $362,500 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $336,800 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $312,200 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $270,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOPERA COLORADO: $266,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $262,890 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY: $247,500 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $232,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $219,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $150,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSU TEATRO INC: $147,700 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE: $140,278 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY: $137,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC: $127,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $118,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $118,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetDenver Architecture Foundation: $109,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetDENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP: $107,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetSWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $105,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc: $102,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLATTEFORUM: $97,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP: $91,300 over 4y, 11% of budgetLATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $84,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DENVER: $81,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $75,221 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $75,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE DENVER BRASS INC: $74,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMIZEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE: $74,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $72,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUNTPORT THEATER COMPANY: $70,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAthena Project: $67,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED: $65,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDENVER DIGERATI: $64,500 over 3y, 36% of budgetROOTED: $64,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: $64,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetTHINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING: $63,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOLORADO DRAGON BOAT AKA COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: $62,100 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetPost 1 Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Latino Community Foun…Gates Family Foundati…RedlineBoettcher FoundationCaring for Denver Fou…Mile High United Way …The Women's Foundatio…The Colorado Trust
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bonfils-Stanton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bonfils-Stanton Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bonfils-Stanton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 239 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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