· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $29,250 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $28,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER | $28,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO COLO SPRINGS | $21,500 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | $18,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $14,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER | $10,750 |
| ADAMS STATE COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVE | $7,250 |
| PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $7,200 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER | $6,167 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| CENTURY 190 | $3,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
106 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +39%
- RUREGIS UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER2× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- C3CORINTHAIN 35one grant, 2023 · $21k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO COLO SPGSone grant, 2019 · $14k
- CCCRIPPLE CREEK 96one grant, 2018 · $9k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the general welfare and development of the metropolitan state university of denver.
Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
To provide post-secondary undergraduate and graduate education.
Colgate university's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their…
Concordia university nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world. we primarily do this by providing…
Central college is a private liberal arts institution dedicated to the four year undergraduate experience.
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
To combine the liberal arts and professional preparedness through an interdisciplinary curriculum.
To create a space where students can develop intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage.
How this is measured
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Masons Benevolent Fund Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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