Colorado · Private foundation
Eliot Charitable Trust
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.
- $204k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,152
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $840k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Eliot Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 12 | $204k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $44k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $47k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $26k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $86k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $92k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $128k | 74% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $69k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $367,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Garden Club of America | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Haven Charitable Trust | $18,554 | 7 | 0% |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $15,325 | 6 | 0% |
| The Western Stock Show Association | $11,037 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $8,700 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $5,275 | 1 | 0% |
| Graland Country Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint John's Cathedral in the Wilderness | $4,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eliot Charitable Trust 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Western Union Foundation · McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation · O'Neal Family Foundation · Robert E & Anne T Sneed Aka Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
How this is measured
About Eliot Charitable Trust
- How much does Eliot Charitable Trust give?
- Eliot Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $204,105 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Eliot Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (59%), Arts & Culture (7%), Education (5%).
- Who are Eliot Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Denver Botanic Gardens Inc ($367k), The Garden Club of America ($50k), Southern Methodist University ($20k).
- Does Eliot Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eliot Charitable Trust 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 Eliot Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Eliot Charitable Trust based?
- Eliot Charitable Trust is based in CO.
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