Colorado · Private foundation
Caruthers 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.
- $636k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Caruthers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 24 | $636k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $930k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $521k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $142k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $416k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $273k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $760k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $157k | 35% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slc6a1 Connect | $500,000 | 1 | 23% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $317,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Parlando Incorporated | $240,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Odc Network | $140,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Island School | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greenpeace Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pacific Whale Foundation | $22,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caruthers Family 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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Emsa Fund Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Anchor Point Foundation · AEC Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Caruthers Family Foundation
- How much does Caruthers Family Foundation give?
- Caruthers Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $636,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Caruthers Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (31%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (12%).
- Who are Caruthers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Slc6a1 Connect ($500k), The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($317k), Parlando Incorporated ($240k).
- Does Caruthers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caruthers 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 Caruthers Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Caruthers Family Foundation based?
- Caruthers Family Foundation is based in CO.
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