Colorado · Private foundation
Gary Philanthropy
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 207
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 146
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $6.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 105 to 146
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 15
- Total assets, FY2023
- $191M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 72% of the organizations Gary Philanthropy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 146 | $6.3M | 72% |
| FY2021 | 105 | $6.6M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 143 | $8.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elevation Community Land Trust | $1,301,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Urban Land Conservancy | $1,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Colorado Children's Campaign | $990,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Mile High United Way Inc | $975,344 | 3 | 1% |
| Invest in Kids | $911,250 | 2 | 14% |
| The Bell Policy Center | $556,500 | 3 | 19% |
| La Raza Services Inc | $553,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Early Milestones Colorado | $545,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Community College of Denver Fdn | $497,700 | 2 | 13% |
| Colorado Fiscal Institute | $365,050 | 3 | 12% |
Show all 243 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gary Philanthropy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation
How this is measured
About Gary Philanthropy
- How much does Gary Philanthropy give?
- Gary Philanthropy reported 207 itemized grants totaling $6,455,861, out of $8,513,776 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 105 and 146 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Gary Philanthropy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (11%), Human Services (9%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Gary Philanthropy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Elevation Community Land Trust ($1.3M), Urban Land Conservancy ($1.0M), Colorado Children's Campaign ($990k).
- Does Gary Philanthropy fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gary Philanthropy 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 Gary Philanthropy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Gary Philanthropy based?
- Gary Philanthropy is based in CO.
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