Colorado · Private foundation
Borgen Family 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Borgen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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 | 39 | $1.7M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.4M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $1.0M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $957k | 10% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vail Health Services Foundation | $2,650,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Ski and Snowboard Club Vail | $1,189,500 | 9 | 3% |
| The Cycle Effect | $537,500 | 9 | 6% |
| Graland Country Day School | $515,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Students Shoulder-To-Shoulder | $443,166 | 9 | 23% |
| Walking Mountains | $397,100 | 9 | 2% |
| Eagle Valley Land Trust | $372,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Vail Mountain School | $370,867 | 9 | 0% |
| Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Betty Ford Alpine Gardens | $305,000 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Borgen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · The Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · The VF Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation
How this is measured
About Borgen Family Foundation
- How much does Borgen Family Foundation give?
- Borgen Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $1,772,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Borgen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (21%), Environment (21%).
- Who are Borgen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vail Health Services Foundation ($2.6M), Ski and Snowboard Club Vail ($1.2M), The Cycle Effect ($538k).
- Does Borgen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Borgen Family 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 Borgen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Gates Family Foundation.
- Where is Borgen Family Foundation based?
- Borgen Family Foundation is based in CO.
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