Colorado · Private foundation
Bruce Benson 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.
- $602k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Bruce Benson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k 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 | 19 | $602k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $784k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $1.2M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $231k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $160k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $141k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 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 | $1,175,055 | 2 | 0% |
| Advance Colorado | $600,000 | 2 | 7% |
| The Steamboat Institute | $250,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Leadership Program of the Rockies | $245,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Colorado Academy | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $163,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Independence Institute | $31,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $1,175,055 | 2 | 0% |
| Advance Colorado | $600,000 | 2 | 7% |
| The Steamboat Institute | $250,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Leadership Program of the Rockies | $245,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Colorado Academy | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $163,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Independence Institute | $31,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Denver Public Schools Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gold Crown Foundation | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Denver Police Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Casady School | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Common Sense Institute | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Step Denver | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Judi's House Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Commit Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Parents Challenge | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Denver Santa Clause Shop Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cancer League of Colorado Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce Benson 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Koelbel Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Armstrong Family Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Eze Foundation
How this is measured
About Bruce Benson Foundation
- How much does Bruce Benson Foundation give?
- Bruce Benson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $602,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce Benson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Public Benefit (28%), Health (5%).
- Who are Bruce Benson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($1.2M), Advance Colorado ($600k), The Steamboat Institute ($250k).
- Does Bruce Benson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce Benson 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 Bruce Benson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Pema Foundation Inc, Daniels Fund.
- Where is Bruce Benson Foundation based?
- Bruce Benson Foundation is based in CO.
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