Colorado · Private foundation
Calm Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Calm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 10 | $63k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $65k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $70k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $69k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $49k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $52k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $50k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Documentary Academy | $33,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Exponential Impact | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Yu Ming Charter School | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peak Education | $17,500 | 3 | 1% |
| INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Concrete Couch | $12,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thrive Co | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Recidiviz Inc | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Fresh Food Connect | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Documentary Academy | $33,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Exponential Impact | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Yu Ming Charter School | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peak Education | $17,500 | 3 | 1% |
| INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Concrete Couch | $12,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thrive Co | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Recidiviz Inc | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Fresh Food Connect | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Patty Jewett Neighborhood Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trails and Open Space Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Place | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Care and Share Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food to Power (Fka Colorado Springs Food Rescue) | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Highway | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Nonprofit Excellence | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Blue Star Recyclers | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Advancing the Gospel in Angola Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roundup Fellowship | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blackpackers | $1,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Peak Partnership | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Calm Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Ent Credit Union · The John E and Margaret L Lane Foundation · Esther M & Freeman E Everett Charitable · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation
How this is measured
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About Calm Foundation
- How much does Calm Foundation give?
- Calm Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $62,537 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Calm Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (19%), Animals (15%).
- Who are Calm Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Youth Documentary Academy ($34k), Exponential Impact ($30k), Yu Ming Charter School ($30k).
- Does Calm Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Calm Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Calm Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, El Pomar Foundation.
- Where is Calm Foundation based?
- Calm Foundation is based in CO.
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