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Clarence V Laguardia Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$608k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2026
14
Organizations funded FY2025
7%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$107,500
Organizations funded a year
14 to 22
FY2018 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$7.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Clarence V Laguardia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving16$608k6%
FY202514$445k7%
FY202415$469k7%
FY202316$443k38%
FY202216$513k13%
FY202122$580k36%
FY201918$471k11%
FY201819$484kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.8MHealth$658kHuman Services$484kArts & Culture$422kCommunity Improvement$25kCrime & Legal$20kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clarence V Laguardia Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Jewish Health: $465,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $411,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $312,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $310,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $277,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado School of Mines Foundation: $210,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $185,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetShalom Park: $170,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCreede Repertory Theatre: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRegis University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Star Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJefferson County Library Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetArapahoe Community College Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJoshua Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRose Andom Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSt Marys University of Minnesota: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Down Syndrome Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Clarence V Laguardia Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Clarence V Laguardia 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 Clarence V Laguardia Foundation

How much does Clarence V Laguardia Foundation give?
Clarence V Laguardia Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $607,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
What does Clarence V Laguardia Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (19%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Clarence V Laguardia Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: National Jewish Health ($465k), Denver Art Museum ($412k), Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($312k).
Does Clarence V Laguardia Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clarence V Laguardia Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Clarence V Laguardia Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.
Where is Clarence V Laguardia Foundation based?
Clarence V Laguardia Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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