Delaware · Private foundation
Bushong 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.
- $390k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Bushong Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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 | 31 | $390k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $295k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $294k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $319k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $205k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $275k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $250k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $250k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Sound Horses Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 99% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | $176,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth for a Change | $176,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Colorado Horse Rescue Network | $175,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Thrive Center | $126,000 | 8 | 20% |
| Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 13% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $119,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Peak Parent Center Inc | $101,000 | 7 | 1% |
| 5430 Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bushong Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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 · El Pomar Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Greater Good Charities · Libertygives Foundation · Banfield Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Western Union Foundation
How this is measured
About Bushong Family Foundation
- How much does Bushong Family Foundation give?
- Bushong Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $390,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bushong Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (31%), Youth Development (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Bushong Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Sound Horses Inc ($185k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc ($176k), Colorado Youth for a Change ($176k).
- Does Bushong Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bushong 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 Bushong Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, El Pomar Foundation.
- Where is Bushong Family Foundation based?
- Bushong Family Foundation is based in DE.
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