Colorado · Private foundation
Catto Shaw 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $278,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Catto Shaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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 | 12 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.1M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $949k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $856k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $620k | 68% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $972,793 | 6 | 5% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $489,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Arts Campus at Willits | $462,961 | 5 | 8% |
| Creative Capital Foundation | $361,360 | 5 | 2% |
| Valley Settlement | $336,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $325,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cate School | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Manu | $175,000 | 2 | 45% |
| English in Action | $120,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Aspen Country Day School Inc | $102,500 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($797k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Catto Shaw Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Dornick Foundation Inc · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · The Swaha Foundation · The Austin Memorial Foundation · Castaways Foundation
How this is measured
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About Catto Shaw Foundation
- How much does Catto Shaw Foundation give?
- Catto Shaw Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,065,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Catto Shaw Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Arts & Culture (25%), Social Science (20%).
- Who are Catto Shaw Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Aspen Center for Environmental Studies ($973k), The Aspen Institute Inc ($490k), The Arts Campus at Willits ($463k).
- Does Catto Shaw Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Catto Shaw 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 Catto Shaw Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Alpenglow Foundation.
- Where is Catto Shaw Foundation based?
- Catto Shaw Foundation is based in CO.
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