Colorado · Private foundation
Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $227k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $227k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $313k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $281k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $260k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $235k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $258k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $278k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 83 | $348k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 College | $103,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Colorado State University | $17,750 | 4 | n/a |
| Regis University | $16,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Technical College of the Rockies | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 190 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
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: Roof F T Char · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association
- How much does Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association give?
- Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association reported 39 grants totaling $227,401 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Religion (23%), Public Benefit (5%).
- Who are Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Colorado College ($104k), Colorado State University ($18k), Regis University ($17k).
- Does Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association 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 Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roof F T Char, Daniels Fund, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association based?
- Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association is based in CO.
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