How much does Fulcrum Foundation give?

Fulcrum Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $2,815,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Fulcrum Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%), International (11%).

Who are Fulcrum Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food Bank of the Rockies ($900k), Feeding America ($900k), The Trust for Public Land ($475k).

Does Fulcrum Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fulcrum Foundation 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 Fulcrum Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.

Where is Fulcrum Foundation based?

Fulcrum Foundation is based in CO.

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Fulcrum Foundation

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 77
Grants FY2025: 67
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 56 to 67; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 15
Total assets, FY2025: $26M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Fulcrum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	75	$2.7M	16%
FY2024	67	$2.1M	13%
FY2023	62	$2.1M	8%
FY2022	59	$2.0M	12%
FY2021	56	$2.1M	9%
FY2020	62	$1.8M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$2.5MFood & Nutrition$2.2MInternational$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.1MHealth$890kCivil Rights$605kPublic Benefit$595kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food Bank of the Rockies	$900,000	6	0%
Feeding America	$900,000	6	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$475,000	6	0%
Safehouse Denver Inc	$450,075	6	6%
Denver Children's Advocacy Center	$450,000	6	3%
Denver Public Schools Foundation	$300,000	6	1%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Rainforest Foundation Inc	$300,000	6	1%
Coalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat	$300,000	6	2%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$300,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Fulcrum Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food Bank of the Rockies	$900,000	6	0%
Feeding America	$900,000	6	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$475,000	6	0%
Safehouse Denver Inc	$450,075	6	6%
Denver Children's Advocacy Center	$450,000	6	3%
Denver Public Schools Foundation	$300,000	6	1%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Rainforest Foundation Inc	$300,000	6	1%
Coalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat	$300,000	6	2%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Givedirectly Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services	$300,000	6	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Clean Air Task Force Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Mile High United Way Inc	$300,000	6	0%
Climate Emergency Fund	$275,000	6	3%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc	$275,000	6	0%
Rainforest Trust	$250,000	5	0%
Wildearth Guardians	$210,000	6	1%
Helen Keller International	$200,000	5	0%
The Delores Project	$180,000	6	1%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc	$170,000	6	3%
Hias Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Energy Outreach Colorado	$150,000	6	0%
Anti-Defamation League	$150,000	6	0%
United States Fund for Unicef	$150,000	3	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado Inc	$150,000	6	1%
Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado	$150,000	6	1%
Warren Village Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Share Our Strength	$135,000	6	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$125,000	5	0%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation	$110,000	6	0%
Revision	$110,000	5	1%
The Logan School For Creative Learning	$100,000	1	1%
Ocean Conservancy	$100,000	4	0%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver	$100,000	4	1%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc	$80,000	4	0%
Women for Women International	$80,000	4	0%
Women for Afghan Women Inc	$80,000	4	0%
The Brigid Alliance Inc	$75,000	3	0%
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising	$75,000	3	2%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Lawyers for Good Government Inc	$75,000	1	n/a
Democracy Forward	$75,000	1	n/a
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc	$75,000	1	n/a
Project Worthmore	$65,000	6	1%
Denver Urban Gardens	$40,000	6	1%
Project Angel Heart	$30,000	6	0%
Prison Policy Initiative	$30,000	2	0%
Life After Hate Inc	$30,000	6	1%
San Miguel Resource Center (Smrc)	$30,000	6	1%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$30,000	2	0%
Shining Hope for Communities Inc	$27,500	4	0%
Evidence Action	$25,000	1	n/a
Middle East Children's Alliance	$25,000	1	0%
Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz	$22,500	5	0%
Catalyst Kitchens	$20,000	1	n/a
Colorado Dream Foundation	$20,000	2	1%
Fortify Inc	$20,000	2	3%
River Network	$15,000	3	0%
So All May Eat Inc	$15,000	2	1%
Hope Foundation for Women Child of Bangladesh Inc	$10,000	1	1%
La Cocina	$10,000	1	0%
Brac USA Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Crisis Text Line Inc	$10,000	2	0%
The Fistula Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Bowdoin College	$5,000	1	0%
Bright Beginnings	$5,000	1	0%
Friends of Chamber Music	$5,000	1	1%
Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Peruvian Hearts	$1,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fulcrum Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 67.

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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 FoundationCO33.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Records Johnston Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Colorado 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.

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About Fulcrum Foundation

How much does Fulcrum Foundation give?: Fulcrum Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $2,815,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Fulcrum Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%), International (11%).
Who are Fulcrum Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food Bank of the Rockies ($900k), Feeding America ($900k), The Trust for Public Land ($475k).
Does Fulcrum Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fulcrum Foundation 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 Fulcrum Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Fulcrum Foundation based?: Fulcrum Foundation is based in CO.