Delaware · Private foundation
Dea Family 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.
- $607k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Dea Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 27 | $606k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $285k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $339k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $302k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $277k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $213k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $203k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $56k | 33% |
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 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 Museum of Natural History | $1,210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $131,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $103,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Western Colorado University Foundation | $89,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Crested Butte Land Trust | $81,510 | 7 | 2% |
| State Historical Society of Colorado the Colorado State Museum | $77,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Switch Energy Alliance | $51,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Western Stock Show Association | $49,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dea Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Greater Houston Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anne Lamkin Kinder Foundation Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Planetary Trust · Truettner Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Gates Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Dea Family Foundation
- How much does Dea Family Foundation give?
- Dea Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $606,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dea Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are Dea Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado Museum of Natural History ($1.2M), Colorado State University Foundation ($260k), Alliance for Choice in Education ($131k).
- Does Dea Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dea Family 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 Dea Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Dea Family Foundation based?
- Dea Family Foundation is based in DE.
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