Colorado · Private foundation
Dean Foundation Inc
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.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Dean Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 61 | $135k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $112k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $184k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $182k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $126k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $136k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $92k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $128k | 36% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc | $40,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute | $40,250 | 7 | 3% |
| Elon University | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Waldorf School Assoc of Seattle | $39,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of the Lawrenceville School | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Seattle University | $30,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Icicle Creek Center for the Arts | $23,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Ministry of Caring Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Documentary Academy | $15,500 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($524k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dean Foundation Inc 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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Rencourt Foundation Inc · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · Marmot Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dean Foundation Inc
- How much does Dean Foundation Inc give?
- Dean Foundation Inc reported 61 grants totaling $135,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dean Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (13%).
- Who are Dean Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ($41k), Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute ($40k), Elon University ($39k).
- Does Dean Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dean Foundation Inc 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 Dean Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, El Pomar Foundation.
- Where is Dean Foundation Inc based?
- Dean Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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