Colorado · Private foundation
Dobbins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28k
- Granted FY2023
- 29
- Grants FY2023
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Dobbins Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community First Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Dobbins Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 3
- Total assets, FY2023
- $532k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Dobbins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 28 | $26k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $32k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $56k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $25k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $28k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $27k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Partners for Home Inc | $9,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Georgia Strategic Alliance for New | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Council on Economic Education | $6,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Groundwork Atlanta Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| West Atlanta Watershed Alliance | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Invest in Kids | $5,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Art Museum | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Historic District Development Corporation | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dobbins 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
About Dobbins Foundation
- How much does Dobbins Foundation give?
- Dobbins Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $28,472 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dobbins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (13%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Dobbins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc ($13k), Partners for Home Inc ($10k), Georgia Strategic Alliance for New ($7k).
- Does Dobbins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dobbins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dobbins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dobbins Foundation based?
- Dobbins Foundation is based in CO.
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