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Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). This is accomplished through receiving, managing, and investing gifts. Principal and/or income from these…

$79M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$79,217,346
Largest grant, FY2025
$79,217,346
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$865M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Colorado State University Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$79M0%
FY20241$77M0%
FY20238$83M88%
FY20222$60M0%
FY202116$60M94%
FY20201$69M0%
FY20191$67M0%
FY20181$112M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$655MEnvironment$290kAnimals$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colorado State University$654,940,1329n/a
Borderlands Restoration Network$100,00023%
Turner Station Conservation Teams Inc$10,0001n/a
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$10,00010%
American Forests$10,00010%
Valencia Swcd$10,0001n/a
The Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation$10,00011%
Trees Water and People$10,00011%
National Wildlife Federation$10,00010%
Education Economics Environmental Climate and Heal$10,0001n/a
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Colorado State University Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colorado State University$654,940,1329n/a
Borderlands Restoration Network$100,00023%
Turner Station Conservation Teams Inc$10,0001n/a
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$10,00010%
American Forests$10,00010%
Valencia Swcd$10,0001n/a
The Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation$10,00011%
Trees Water and People$10,00011%
National Wildlife Federation$10,00010%
Education Economics Environmental Climate and Heal$10,0001n/a
The Blueprint Foundation$10,00012%
Bat Conservation International$10,00010%
City of San Elizario$10,0001n/a
Hispanic Access Foundation$10,00010%
Council for Watershed Health$10,00011%
Chama Peak Land Alliance$10,00012%
Fruitful Commons$10,000110%
Greenroots Inc$10,00010%
Canfield Consortium$10,00017%
Friends of Valle de Oro Nwr$10,00014%
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice$10,0001n/a
EcoWorks$10,00011%
Link Houston$10,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Colorado State University Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBorderlands Restoration Network: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Forests: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTrees Water and People: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blueprint Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBat Conservation International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHispanic Access Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil for Watershed Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChama Peak Land Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFruitful Commons: $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetGreenroots Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanfield Consortium: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFriends of Valle de Oro Nwr: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetEcoWorks: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLink Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 17.

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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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About Colorado State University Foundation

How much does Colorado State University Foundation give?
Colorado State University Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $79,217,346 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Colorado State University Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Environment (0%), Animals (0%).
Who are Colorado State University Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado State University ($655M), Borderlands Restoration Network ($100k), Turner Station Conservation Teams Inc ($10k).
Does Colorado State University Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado State University Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Colorado State University Foundation based?
Colorado State University 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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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