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.

Eliot Charitable Trust

Eliot Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$136k

Largest

01What it funds

0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$426kArts & Culture$52kEducation$35kAnimals$31kPhilanthropy$26kInternational$19kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $40k
$10k–50k1 grant · $29k
$50k–250k1 grant · $136k

$5,152

Median grant

States reached

$840k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS	$135,500
Individual grant recipient	$28,597
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW	$7,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$5,275
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$5,152
HUMANE COLORADO	$3,600
HOPE HAVEN RWANDA	$3,311
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE	$2,625
ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE	$2,500
TITHELY	$1,545
CASA DE PAZ	$1,000

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 (FY18–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$629k · 18 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$629k

$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+14%

Still filing today

61%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

DB
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $367k · revenue +57%
HH
HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST
7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +132%
AP
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC
6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +117%

Funded once

Southern Methodist Universitygraduated
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +37%
GC
GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +14%
CG
CHILDREN'S GRADEN LEARNING ACADEMY
one grant, 2019 · $3k

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.

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment

Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment

Colorado Headwaters Land Trust

To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.

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Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment

Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment

Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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Conservation Colorado

Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…

Civil Rights

Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 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)

26/27

Grantees still filing

20/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$419,500Other$191,570Animals$27,125Philanthropy$25,900Education$25,000International$18,554Recreation & Sports$13,537

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eliot Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eliot Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home