Colorado · Private foundation
Business for Isness Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $15k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $211k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Business for Isness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $13k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $17k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Veterans Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Routt County Council on Aging Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Futures Prevention Coalition | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Routt County Humane Society | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Stavna Ballet Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
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 · Groupgives Yampa Valley Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Business for Isness Foundation
- How much does Business for Isness Foundation give?
- Business for Isness Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Business for Isness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Youth Development (24%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Business for Isness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Veterans Center ($20k), Routt County Council on Aging Inc ($7k), Grand Futures Prevention Coalition ($5k).
- Does Business for Isness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Business for Isness 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 Business for Isness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Groupgives Yampa Valley Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Business for Isness Foundation based?
- Business for Isness Foundation is based in CO.
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