Colorado · Private foundation
Cornet Creek Foundation
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.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Cornet Creek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $84k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $69k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $72k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $58k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $54k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $82k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telluride Mountain School Inc | $201,251 | 7 | 1% |
| The Pinhead Institute | $41,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ah Haa School for the Arts | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mountainfilm | $17,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Sheep Mountain Alliance | $17,030 | 4 | 14% |
| Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club Inc | $14,256 | 4 | 0% |
| Telluride Youth Lacrosse Associatio | $8,610 | 4 | 4% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wesleyan University | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cornet Creek Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Telluride Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Day Family Foundation · Thomas J Rolfs Foundation · Thomas H and Donna M Stone Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Cornet Creek Foundation
- How much does Cornet Creek Foundation give?
- Cornet Creek Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $93,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cornet Creek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Cornet Creek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Telluride Mountain School Inc ($201k), The Pinhead Institute ($41k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($35k).
- Does Cornet Creek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cornet Creek Foundation 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 Cornet Creek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation, Telluride Foundation, The Dalton Family Foundation.
- Where is Cornet Creek Foundation based?
- Cornet Creek Foundation is based in CO.
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