Colorado · Private foundation
Central Colorado Education Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $584
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $120k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Central Colorado Education Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 7 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $5k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $15k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $8k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $6k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center | $3,900 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
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About Central Colorado Education Trust
- How much does Central Colorado Education Trust give?
- Central Colorado Education Trust reported 7 grants totaling $5,004 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Central Colorado Education Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Environment (7%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
- Who are Central Colorado Education Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center ($4k).
- Does Central Colorado Education Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Central Colorado Education Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Central Colorado Education Trust based?
- Central Colorado Education Trust is based in CO.
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