How much does Brett Family Foundation give?

Brett Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $481,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Brett Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Community Improvement (19%), Education (16%).

Who are Brett Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($390k), The Bell Policy Center ($336k), New Era Colorado Foundation ($167k).

Does Brett Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Brett Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Brett Family Foundation?

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

Where is Brett Family Foundation based?

Brett Family Foundation is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Brett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$481k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 46
Grants FY2025: 41
Organizations funded FY2024: 12%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $90,000
Organizations funded a year: 38 to 48; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $6.5M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Brett Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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	39	$372k	8%
FY2024	41	$389k	12%
FY2023	40	$369k	10%
FY2022	48	$463k	23%
FY2021	40	$394k	45%
FY2020	38	$338k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$711kCommunity Improvement$564kEducation$489kPublic Benefit$367kArts & Culture$333kCivil Rights$205kEnvironment$114kHuman Services$109kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation	$389,500	6	0%
The Bell Policy Center	$336,000	6	6%
New Era Colorado Foundation	$166,500	6	2%
Progressnow Colorado Education	$80,000	6	2%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc	$60,000	6	0%
Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable	$60,000	6	6%
Community Resource Center Inc	$55,500	6	1%
Colorado Symphony Association	$52,500	5	0%
Cobalt Foundation	$52,500	6	0%
Conservation Colorado Education Fund	$50,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Brett Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation	$389,500	6	0%
The Bell Policy Center	$336,000	6	6%
New Era Colorado Foundation	$166,500	6	2%
Progressnow Colorado Education	$80,000	6	2%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc	$60,000	6	0%
Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable	$60,000	6	6%
Community Resource Center Inc	$55,500	6	1%
Colorado Symphony Association	$52,500	5	0%
Cobalt Foundation	$52,500	6	0%
Conservation Colorado Education Fund	$50,000	6	0%
Colorado Democracy Network	$47,500	6	6%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition	$47,500	6	1%
Together Colorado	$45,000	6	1%
Great Education Colorado	$45,000	6	4%
Civic News Company	$37,500	6	0%
Colorado Fiscal Institute	$35,000	6	1%
Aspen Journalism	$30,000	6	1%
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights	$30,000	6	0%
The Futuro Media Group	$30,000	6	0%
Colorado Poverty Law Project	$29,500	4	1%
Western Resource Advocates	$26,500	4	0%
Colorado Times Recorder	$25,000	2	3%
The Colorado Education Initiative	$25,000	4	0%
Blair County Historical Society	$25,000	1	4%
Colorado People's Alliance	$23,500	3	0%
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado	$20,000	4	0%
Western Colorado Alliance	$18,000	4	0%
The Sopris Sun Inc	$17,000	5	1%
Lyons Elevating All Fund	$16,000	4	1%
United for a New Economy	$15,000	3	0%
Common Cause Education Fund	$15,000	2	0%
High Country News	$15,000	3	0%
Impact on Education Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Outreach United Resource Center Inc	$15,000	4	0%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc	$15,000	4	0%
Good Business Colorado	$14,500	5	1%
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc	$13,000	4	0%
Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement	$12,000	3	0%
Fraser Valley Community Media Inc	$12,000	4	3%
Colorado News Collaborative	$10,000	1	2%
Boulder Building Blocks Fund Inc	$10,000	1	7%
Transformative Leadership for Change	$10,000	2	0%
Remerg	$10,000	1	15%
Focus Reentry	$10,000	1	5%
Sister Carmen Community Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf	$10,000	1	0%
Emergency Family Assistance Association	$9,000	3	0%
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning	$8,500	3	0%
Crestone Eagle Community Media	$8,500	3	2%
Voces Unidas de Las Montanas	$8,000	2	0%
Metro Caring	$8,000	2	0%
Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund	$8,000	1	2%
Denver Film Society	$7,500	2	0%
Tenderfoot Transmitting Inc	$7,500	3	2%
Colorado Freedom of Info Council	$6,000	2	2%
First Light Foundation	$5,000	1	2%
The Alliance For Collective Action	$5,000	1	0%
Rewire News Group	$5,000	1	0%
Aya Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Chinook Fund Inc	$5,000	1	0%
From The Heart Productions	$5,000	1	0%
University of Wyoming Foundation	$4,000	1	0%
Mile High United Way Inc	$4,000	1	0%
Hopes Inc	$4,000	1	2%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Third Way Center Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Mi Familia En Accion	$3,000	1	0%
Community Shares of Colorado Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress	$2,500	1	0%
East High Angel Foundation	$2,000	1	1%
Project O	$2,000	2	1%
Colorado Black Women Endowment Fund	$2,000	1	n/a
Institute for Healthcare Improvement	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brett Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 72.

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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.

Rose Community FoundationCO82.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Merle Chambers Fund · The Colorado Trust · Gates Family Foundation · Gill Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Hopewell Fund

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 Brett Family Foundation

How much does Brett Family Foundation give?: Brett Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $481,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Brett Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Community Improvement (19%), Education (16%).
Who are Brett Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($390k), The Bell Policy Center ($336k), New Era Colorado Foundation ($167k).
Does Brett Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brett Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brett Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Brett Family Foundation based?: Brett Family Foundation is based in CO.