Colorado · Private foundation
Foundation for Educational Excellence
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $58,815
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Foundation for Educational Excellence 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; $959k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $1.9M | 65% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $2.0M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.8M | 68% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $117k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $345k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $263k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $253k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The STEAD School | $1,141,853 | 5 | 12% |
| Buildstrong Academy | $868,825 | 4 | n/a |
| Colorado Open Golf Foundation Inc | $620,130 | 3 | 32% |
| Colorado Dream Foundation | $513,500 | 5 | 11% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | $507,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Brees Dream Foundation | $400,000 | 1 | 37% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $220,260 | 2 | 1% |
| Warren Village Inc | $189,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Other Side Academy | $119,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago | $118,880 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for Educational Excellence supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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 · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Connie Burwell White and William W White Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Foundation for Educational Excellence with peer funders
About Foundation for Educational Excellence
- How much does Foundation for Educational Excellence give?
- Foundation for Educational Excellence reported 28 grants totaling $1,988,337 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Foundation for Educational Excellence fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Youth Development (14%), Employment (12%).
- Who are Foundation for Educational Excellence's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The STEAD School ($1.1M), Buildstrong Academy ($869k), Colorado Open Golf Foundation Inc ($620k).
- Does Foundation for Educational Excellence fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foundation for Educational Excellence accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Educational Excellence?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Foundation for Educational Excellence based?
- Foundation for Educational Excellence is based in CO.
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