How much does Catalyst Foundation give?

Catalyst Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $379,609 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Catalyst Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Youth Development (10%), Health (8%).

Who are Catalyst Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Dakota State University Foundation ($589k), Civico ($100k), Craig Hospital ($78k).

Does Catalyst Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Catalyst 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 Catalyst Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Janus Henderson Foundation.

Where is Catalyst Foundation based?

Catalyst Foundation is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Catalyst 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.

$380k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 32%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $9.6M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Catalyst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	20	$325k	40%
FY2024	22	$329k	32%
FY2023	22	$294k	36%
FY2022	18	$167k	44%
FY2021	18	$150k	50%
FY2020	21	$122k	43%
FY2019	17	$105k	0%
FY2018	16	$92k	38%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$771kYouth Development$176kHealth$134kEnvironment$120kPublic Benefit$100kArts & Culture$97kCommunity Improvement$76kReligion$31kOther$0

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
North Dakota State University Foundation	$588,600	9	0%
Civico	$100,000	2	11%
Craig Hospital	$77,632	5	0%
Access Opportunity	$62,000	4	3%
Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute	$49,875	2	3%
Craig Hospital Foundation	$48,000	3	0%
BEN Colorado Inc	$35,000	1	5%
Cornell University	$29,000	7	0%
High Line Canal Conservancy	$25,000	1	1%
St Josephs Catholic Church	$10,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Catalyst Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
North Dakota State University Foundation	$588,600	9	0%
Civico	$100,000	2	11%
Craig Hospital	$77,632	5	0%
Access Opportunity	$62,000	4	3%
Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute	$49,875	2	3%
Craig Hospital Foundation	$48,000	3	0%
BEN Colorado Inc	$35,000	1	5%
Cornell University	$29,000	7	0%
High Line Canal Conservancy	$25,000	1	1%
St Josephs Catholic Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Volunteers of America Inc	$5,787	3	n/a
Yale University	$5,000	1	n/a
Denver Public Schools Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
National Jewish Health	$5,000	1	0%
Yale University	$4,000	3	n/a
University of Denver	$3,000	1	0%
March of Dimes Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Wish for Wheels Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$2,000	1	0%
Souris Valley Humane Society Inc	$2,000	3	0%
Denver Junior Golf	$2,000	2	n/a
Children's Council of San Francisco	$1,900	4	0%
Yale University	$1,100	1	n/a
Navy Seal Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Child and Family Advocacy Program	$1,000	1	0%
Denver Rescue Mission	$1,000	1	0%
Belay Enterprises Inc	$1,000	1	0%
St Raymonds Catholic Church	$1,000	1	n/a
Colorado Golf Association	$1,000	1	0%
Longhopes Donkey Shelter Inc	$360	1	0%
Bicycle Colorado	$200	1	0%
Park Hill Food Pantry	$200	1	n/a
Suncoast Humane Societyinc	$100	1	n/a
Year Up Inc	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($602k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Catalyst Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF · Community Foundation Boulder County · El Pomar Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Catalyst Foundation

How much does Catalyst Foundation give?: Catalyst Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $379,609 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Catalyst Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Youth Development (10%), Health (8%).
Who are Catalyst Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Dakota State University Foundation ($589k), Civico ($100k), Craig Hospital ($78k).
Does Catalyst Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Catalyst 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 Catalyst Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Janus Henderson Foundation.
Where is Catalyst Foundation based?: Catalyst Foundation is based in CO.