Colorado · Private foundation
Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $341k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 19 | $341k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $361k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $301k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $296k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $283k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $268k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girl Scouts of Colorado | $257,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Central City Opera House Association | $245,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Eating Disorder Foundation | $245,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Opera Colorado | $240,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Havern Center Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Roundup River Ranch | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Judi's House Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Denver Lyric Opera Guild | $60,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Bayaud Enterprises Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girl Scouts of Colorado | $257,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Central City Opera House Association | $245,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Eating Disorder Foundation | $245,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Opera Colorado | $240,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Havern Center Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Roundup River Ranch | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Judi's House Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Denver Lyric Opera Guild | $60,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Bayaud Enterprises Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Denver Children's Choir | $32,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Colorado Children's Chorale | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Art Students League of Denver | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wonderbound | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Platteforum | $18,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation 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 · The Anschutz Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Ima Foundation · Fine Arts Foundation · Sheila Fortune Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation with peer funders
About Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation
- How much does Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation give?
- Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $340,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Youth Development (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Girl Scouts of Colorado ($258k), Central City Opera House Association ($245k), The Eating Disorder Foundation ($245k).
- Does Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Anschutz Foundation.
- Where is Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation based?
- Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation is based in CO.
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