Colorado · Public charity
Chinook Fund Inc
Chinook fund seeds community-led, systemic change by mobilizing resources for and trusting in grassroots social justice organizations across colorado.
- $467k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $435k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Chinook Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 42 | $425k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $210k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $233k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $403k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $522k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $226k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $57k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $41k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $86,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fort Collins Community Action Network | $83,100 | 6 | 11% |
| Mosaic Unlimited Inc | $64,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition | $63,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cultivando | $62,450 | 5 | 1% |
| Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc | $57,450 | 5 | 5% |
| Sacred Voices | $54,150 | 4 | 40% |
| Trailhead Institute | $53,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Una Mano Una Esperanza | $50,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Compound of Compassion | $48,450 | 4 | 14% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Chinook Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 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: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · The Colorado Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Gates Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chinook Fund Inc
- How much does Chinook Fund Inc give?
- Chinook Fund Inc reported 52 itemized grants totaling $435,000, out of $467,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chinook Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Civil Rights (14%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Chinook Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center ($86k), Fort Collins Community Action Network ($83k), Mosaic Unlimited Inc ($64k).
- Does Chinook Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chinook Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Chinook Fund Inc based?
- Chinook Fund Inc is based in CO.
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