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.

Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund

Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$53k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.9MAnimals$534kHuman Services$16kCivil Rights$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$52,839

Median grant

States reached

$388k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION	$52,839

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.4M · 40 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

Still filing today

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

DD
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +254%
HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +84%
HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +77%

Funded once

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals

Safe Haven Inc

Animals

Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals

Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals

Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals

Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals

Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion

Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals

Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals

Mineral County Humane Society Inc

rescue-spay-neuter and adopt into forever homes

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,058,902Animals$320,957Human Services$36,100Recreation & Sports$8,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Mary Elizabeth Bates FoundationCO41.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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