Colorado · Private foundation
Creative Providers 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.
- $476k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $271,822
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Creative Providers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 28 | $433k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $275k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $333k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $250k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $634k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $248k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $682k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $519k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Springs Christian Schools | $2,899,888 | 9 | 7% |
| Life Skills Fore the Youth of Colorado Springs | $161,500 | 9 | 6% |
| Parents Challenge | $94,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Central College | $88,333 | 3 | 0% |
| Richmond Tennis Association | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland Days At Divide Inc | $36,000 | 8 | 83% |
| Biola University Inc | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Heartlight Ministries Inc | $29,100 | 8 | 0% |
| The Society of Pella Christian Schools | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lake George Community Association | $20,100 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Creative Providers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Vanden Bosch Foundation · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Peter H and E Lucille Gaass Kuyper Foundation · Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation
How this is measured
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About Creative Providers Foundation
- How much does Creative Providers Foundation give?
- Creative Providers Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $475,622 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Creative Providers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Philanthropy (6%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are Creative Providers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado Springs Christian Schools ($2.9M), Life Skills Fore the Youth of Colorado Springs ($162k), Parents Challenge ($94k).
- Does Creative Providers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Creative Providers 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 Creative Providers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El Pomar Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, The Myron Stratton Home.
- Where is Creative Providers Foundation based?
- Creative Providers Foundation is based in CO.
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