Colorado · Private foundation
Catena 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.
- $27M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 121
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 145
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $596M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Catena Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M 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 | 76 | $22M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 121 | $29M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 145 | $31M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 117 | $22M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 120 | $21M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $9,573,750 | 5 | 2% |
| Western Resource Advocates | $6,405,116 | 5 | 15% |
| State Leadership Project | $4,550,000 | 4 | 26% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Aspen Global Change Institute Inc | $3,266,667 | 6 | 14% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $3,120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $2,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Civic Nation | $2,200,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Defending Democracy Together Institute | $2,175,000 | 3 | 10% |
| American Immigration Council | $2,150,000 | 5 | 7% |
Show all 224 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Catena Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 22 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: United States Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Resources Legacy Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Windward Fund
How this is measured
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How do I get to Catena Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Catena Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Catena Foundation
- How much does Catena Foundation give?
- Catena Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $27,197,754 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 145 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Catena Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (35%), Public Benefit (16%), Education (9%).
- Who are Catena Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($9.6M), Western Resource Advocates ($6.4M), State Leadership Project ($4.5M).
- Does Catena Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Catena 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 Catena Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, New Venture Fund.
- Where is Catena Foundation based?
- Catena Foundation is based in CO.
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