Colorado · Private foundation
Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $52,839
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,839
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $388k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $53k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $105k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $2.7M | 3% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $141k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $144k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation | $2,858,202 | 5 | 91% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region | $24,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Every Creature Counts | $22,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc | $20,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Paragon Service Dogs | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc | $19,600 | 4 | 2% |
| Teller County Regional Animal Shelt | $19,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Southern Colorado Spay & Neuter Association | $17,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Humane Society of Pagosa Springs | $16,100 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Animal Assistance Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · Alice Jenkins Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Lucile Drinkwater Allen Trust
How this is measured
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About Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund
- How much does Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund give?
- Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund reported 1 grants totaling $52,839 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Animals (16%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation ($2.9M), Denver Dumb Friends League ($100k), Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region ($24k).
- Does Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Animal Assistance Foundation.
- Where is Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund based?
- Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund is based in CO.
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