Colorado · Community foundation
Columbine Community Foundation
The Grand Foundation is a philanthropic organization serving all of Grand County, Colorado. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in Grand County by proactively addressing current and future needs in the areas of Health & Human Services, Arts & Culture, Education, Amateur Sports and Environment.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $56,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $637,247
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Columbine Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $2.1M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.4M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $1.1M | n/a |
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 grants in FY2024.
| Individual grant recipient | $637,247 |
| Individual grant recipient | $164,900 |
| Grants-Health & Human Service | $152,517 |
| Grants - Education orgs | $140,652 |
| Individual grant recipient | $132,462 |
| Individual grant recipient | $101,484 |
| Grants - Arts & Culture | $87,700 |
| DAF - Town of Fraser | $64,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $64,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59,301 |
| Grand Places 2050 | $56,724 |
| DAF - Town of Granby | $56,000 |
| Grants - Sports & Recreation | $55,674 |
| Grants - Environmental orgs | $45,015 |
| Donor Advised-Grand Lake | $38,820 |
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About Columbine Community Foundation
- How much does Columbine Community Foundation give?
- Columbine Community Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $2,075,024 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Columbine Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Does Columbine Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Columbine Community Foundation based?
- Columbine Community Foundation is based in CO.
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