· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NDSU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $55,059 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ACCESS OPPORTUNITY | $35,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB COLORADO | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TOMMY SPAULDING LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CLAUDIO CAMPAIGN | $15,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI | $5,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $589k · revenue +78%
- CHCraig Hospital5× · 2017–2021 · $78k · revenue +61%
- AOACCESS OPPORTUNITY4× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- BCBEN Colorado Incone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -9%
- HLHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +183%
- SJST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The nonprofit boulder chamber is the region's flagship business advocacy and support organization. with almost 120 years of dedicated service to our members and the boulder community, the boulder chamber's innovative programs help local…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CIVICO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEN Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Catalyst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catalyst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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