Colorado · Private foundation
Diamonds in the Rough Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $129k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,030
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Diamonds in the Rough Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $116k | 82% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $229k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $146k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $65k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $62k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $334k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $396k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $141k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $397,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Swc Museum Corp | $191,667 | 4 | 1% |
| Global Down Syndrome Foundation | $181,618 | 6 | 1% |
| Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation | $87,500 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Denver | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver | $57,551 | 7 | 1% |
| The Jewish Experience | $45,000 | 4 | n/a |
| National Jewish Health | $21,130 | 4 | 0% |
| Melina Wachter Memorial Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Third Way Center Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Diamonds in the Rough 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: Rose Community Foundation · Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
About Diamonds in the Rough Foundation
- How much does Diamonds in the Rough Foundation give?
- Diamonds in the Rough Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $128,593 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Diamonds in the Rough Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (30%), Health (27%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Diamonds in the Rough Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc ($398k), Swc Museum Corp ($192k), Global Down Syndrome Foundation ($182k).
- Does Diamonds in the Rough Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Diamonds in the Rough 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 Diamonds in the Rough Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Diamonds in the Rough Foundation based?
- Diamonds in the Rough Foundation is based in CO.
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