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Gates Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
374
Grants FY2025
313
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000,000
Organizations funded a year
248 to 324
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
24
Total assets, FY2025
$424M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Gates Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCommunity 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving320$35M35%
FY2024313$36M43%
FY2023324$41M40%
FY2022308$40M51%
FY2021248$22M50%
FY2020294$21Mn/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.

Education$90MSocial Science$40MEnvironment$18MHealth$7.2MArts & Culture$6.7MCommunity Improvement$6.2MHuman Services$3.7MHousing & Shelter$3.7MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation$44,620,00036%
University of Denver$12,925,00060%
Cardigan Mountain School$7,250,00056%
The Thacher School Inc$4,250,00048%
William J Palmer Parks Foundation Inc$3,450,000644%
Lyra$2,892,5006100%
Rooted$2,590,000624%
Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust$2,515,000627%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$2,250,00022%
Elevation Community Land Trust$1,700,00063%
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All grantees of Gates Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation$44,620,00036%
University of Denver$12,925,00060%
Cardigan Mountain School$7,250,00056%
The Thacher School Inc$4,250,00048%
William J Palmer Parks Foundation Inc$3,450,000644%
Lyra$2,892,5006100%
Rooted$2,590,000624%
Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust$2,515,000627%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$2,250,00022%
Elevation Community Land Trust$1,700,00063%
Gates Grubstake Fund$1,200,0001n/a
The Western Stock Show Association$1,155,70746%
Colorado State University Foundation$952,07430%
Gates Biomanufacturing Facility Sup Foundation$925,0002100%
Bicycle Colorado$745,00069%
High Line Canal Conservancy$700,00044%
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts$695,000532%
America Succeeds$690,000515%
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc$660,00051%
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$650,00040%
Urban Land Conservancy$640,24643%
National Forest Foundation$634,75440%
Montezuma Land Conservancy$591,000613%
Colorado Schools Fund$550,00022%
The Trust for Public Land$535,00050%
The Colorado Prevention Center$500,00012%
Utah State University Foundation$500,0001n/a
Utah State University$500,0001n/a
Center for Community Wealth Building$490,00069%
National Trust for Local News$462,00041%
Community Builders$435,000418%
Colorado Water Trust$380,466312%
Western Landowners Alliance$380,00037%
Montbello Organizing Committee$375,00054%
Colorado League of Charter Schools$365,00054%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$363,96562%
Keystone Center$360,00044%
Colorado Children's Campaign$350,00063%
Moonshot edVentures$340,00056%
Artspace Projects Inc$325,00050%
Civic News Company$325,00061%
National Wildlife Federation$320,00040%
Mile High United Way Inc$315,00030%
Water Foundation$300,00040%
Rise Colorado$298,00053%
Long Beach State Foundation$290,00060%
Roundup River Ranch$270,00022%
Colorado Succeeds$270,00052%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$265,00060%
Empower Schools Inc$250,00033%
Trout Unlimited Inc$250,00030%
River Network$250,00014%
Punahou School$245,00060%
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$230,00022%
Teach for America Inc$225,00040%
Peaks to People Water Fund$225,000343%
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc$225,00032%
Angel Charity for Children Inc$225,00064%
Crested Butte Land Trust$220,000312%
Island Conservation$215,00061%
Denver Dumb Friends League$207,56160%
West Community Economic Development Corp$200,00038%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc$200,00050%
The Colorado College$200,00020%
Denver Civic Arts Foundation$200,000180%
Education Reform Now Inc$195,00031%
Erik Hite Foundation Inc$194,82056%
High Country News$190,00051%
Activate Work Inc$190,00043%
Denver Civic Ventures Inc$190,00042%
Rancho Los Cerritos Foundation$185,00053%
Parker School$185,00060%
Colorado Open Lands$185,00040%
The Sonoran Institute Inc$185,00042%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$175,00060%
Charter Facility Solutions$175,000219%
Colorado Center on Law and Policy$175,00034%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc$175,00020%
Startup Colorado$165,00039%
Food Bank of the Rockies$165,00040%
San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition$163,00052%
Born Free Wildlife Rehabilitation$161,302644%
Bluff Lake Nature Center$160,00033%
The Wildflower Foundation$160,00021%
First Southwest Community Fund$155,00046%
Tread of Pioneers Historical Commission$155,00066%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc$155,00031%
Quantified Ventures$150,7502n/a
Denver Public Library Friends Foundation$150,00022%
The Fort Lewis College Foundation$150,00021%
Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc$150,00031%
Rocky Mountain Microfinance$150,00024%
The Squared Network$150,000143%
The Hadanou Collective$150,00023%
50can Inc$150,00030%
Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium$150,00021%
Dueker Ranch Inc$150,000637%
Cate School$150,00060%
Colorado Youth Congress$150,000311%
Community Resource Center Inc$150,00062%
The Legacy Institute$150,000212%
Latino Leadership Institute$150,000310%
Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners Inc$149,000525%
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe$146,5003n/a
La Puente Home Inc$145,00061%
Ges Coalition Inc$145,000425%
Onward a Legacy Foundation$140,0001n/a
Muslim Youth for Positive Impact$135,00032%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$135,00030%
Valley Settlement$130,00031%
Barton Institute for Community Action$125,00021%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$125,00020%
Aspen Valley Land Trust$125,00031%
East Denver Colfax Partnership Inc$125,00047%
New Legacy Charter School$120,00023%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$120,00060%
Strings Music Festival$120,00062%
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Educational and Charitable Foundation Inc$115,00026%
Steamboat Art Museum$110,00064%
Steamboat Reading Inc$108,000510%
Better Tomorrow$107,46653%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation$105,00040%
Colorado Museum of Natural History$105,00010%
Highland Park Isd Education Foundation$102,01561%
Judi's House Inc$101,70441%
Ednium the Alumni Collective Inc$100,00027%
Sims-Fayola Foundation Inc$100,00025%
Healthy Child Care Colorado$100,000133%
Struggle of Love Foundation$100,00031%
Platte Valley Healthcare Project$100,000112%
Npx Charitable Inc$100,00020%
Elevation Athelic Performance Foundation Inc$100,000339%
National Audubon Society Inc$100,00020%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$100,00010%
Dreamspring$100,00011%
Generation Schools Network Inc$100,00014%
Reschool$100,00036%
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority$100,0001n/a
Think 360 Arts for Learning$100,00026%
Western Resource Advocates$100,00020%
Long Beach Rotary Scholarship Foundation$100,000113%
Denver Urban Gardens$100,00032%
Justice for the People Legal Center$93,50037%
La Luz Education$92,000323%
Yampa Valley Autism Program$90,00047%
BEN Colorado Inc$90,00034%
Aya Foundation$90,00023%
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Foundation Inc$90,000318%
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc$90,00022%
Routt County Search and Rescue Inc$90,00067%
The Park People$90,00025%
Opera Steamboat$90,000622%
Steamboat Health & Recreation Assoc$90,00060%
Mad in America Foundation$87,97037%
Colorado Horse Rescue$87,00043%
Museum of Friends$85,50039%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County$85,00022%
Assistance League of Long Beach$85,00061%
University Preparatory Schools$85,00017%
Peninsula Open Space Trust$80,00060%
Civic Center Conservancy$80,00017%
Mi Casa Resource Center$80,00031%
Colorado Headwaters Land Trust$80,000214%
Central Colorado Conservacy$80,00028%
Long Beach Rotary Charitable Found$80,00066%
Youthroots$80,00035%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$75,00010%
Goodwill of Colorado$75,00020%
Uviation World Water$75,000111%
Nourish Colorado$75,00031%
Ricardo Flores Magon Academyincorporated$75,00011%
The Colorado Education Initiative$75,0001n/a
NeighborWorks Housing Services of Pueblo Inc$75,00013%
Community of Caring Foundation Inc$75,00022%
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc$75,00020%
Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Inc$75,000123%
Pagosa Peak Open School$75,00023%
The Modern Classrooms Project Inc$75,00011%
Denver School of Science and Technology Inc$75,00010%
Solid Rock Community Developmentcorporation$75,00017%
American Rivers Inc$75,00020%
Building a Better Colorado$75,000116%
Tonto Rim Search & Rescue SQD$75,00068%
Precious Lamb Preschool Inc$75,00023%
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$75,00030%
Denver Indian Health and Family Ser$75,00011%
Turpentine Creek Foundation Inc$73,00060%
Food to Power (Fka Colorado Springs Food Rescue)$72,00022%
Central Florida Animal Reserve Inc$71,00066%
Save the Chimps Inc$71,00060%
Healing Arizona Veterans$70,82263%
Dogs for Life Inc$70,27362%
East Colfax Community Collective$70,00022%
Commun Denver Inc$70,0001n/a
Second Chance Center Inc$70,00011%
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative$70,00014%
Sustainable Development Code$70,0001n/a
Historic Hayden Granary Inc$70,000172%
Hoa Incorporated of Austin County$69,00064%
Prevent Unwanted Pets$69,00063%
Cat Spring Volunteer Fire Departmen$69,00068%
Wildflower Montessori Public Schools of Colorado$69,00026%
Care and Share Inc$65,00020%
Wild Bear Nature Center$65,00021%
Warren Village Inc$65,00011%
Center for African American Health$65,00031%
Yampa Valley Sustainability Council$65,0001n/a
We Fortify$65,00023%
Prairie Cultural Commons$65,000254%
Child Guidance Center Inc$65,00060%
Graland Country Day School$64,93060%
Pilchuck Glass School$64,05960%
Yampatika$64,00033%
Regis Jesuit High School$63,3332n/a
Hawaii Public Radio$62,00060%
Empower Community High School$61,00021%
Edgewater Collective$60,000117%
Trailhead Institute$60,00020%
Long Beach Day Nursery$60,00021%
Colorado Cattlemen's Association$60,00017%
Regents of the University of Colorado$60,0002n/a
Womenshelter of Long Beach$60,00061%
Peak Education$60,00012%
Monte Vista Community Fund Inc$60,000210%
Front Line Farming$60,00013%
Long Beach Bar Foundation$60,00065%
Colorado Mesa University Foundation$60,00020%
Boulder Community Broadcast Assoc Inc$60,00014%
The STEAD School$60,00028%
Project Worthmore$60,00021%
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Inc$60,00011%
Pueblo City-County Library District$60,00020%
Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc$60,00032%
Redline$60,00021%
Colorado Plateau Foundation$60,0001n/a
Pine River Shares$58,7502n/a
American Foreign Policy Council$57,33360%
Village Exchange Center Inc$55,00021%
Thriving Families$55,00022%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust$55,00060%
The Morrison Theater Company$55,00022%
Volunteers of America Inc$55,0001n/a
Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust$55,00020%
Community Food Bank$55,00023%
A Woman's Place Incorporated$55,00022%
North Hawaii Hospice Inc$54,00060%
Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association$50,44063%
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center$50,000210%
Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Inc$50,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity Roaring Fork$50,00011%
Dancing Spirit Inc$50,000157%
Weecycle$50,00011%
Teach Plus Inc$50,0001n/a
Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc$50,00010%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc$50,00010%
Friends of the Genoa Tower$50,000121%
Colorado Sun$50,00011%
Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership Inc$50,0001n/a
Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center$50,000157%
Long Beach Public Library Foundation$50,00022%
Casa of the Seventh Judicial District Inc$50,00024%
The Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver$50,0001n/a
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc$50,00010%
Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center$50,00010%
National Council on Teacher Quality Inc$50,00021%
Aviation Hall of Fame$50,000112%
Gunnison County Department of Healt$50,0001n/a
Southern Plains Land Trust Inc$50,00011%
Ogallala Commons Inc$50,0001n/a
University of Northern Colorado Foundation$50,00010%
The Uli Foundation$50,00010%
Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities Inc$50,00021%
Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning Inc$50,00011%
Crosspurpose$50,00020%
The Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation$50,00022%
Fox West Theatre Alliance$50,000128%
Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship$50,0002n/a
Quivira Coalition Inc$50,00015%
Salida Area Parks Open Space & Trails$50,000176%
The Teaching Well Inc$50,00011%
Tabor Opera House Preservation Foundation Inc$50,00015%
City of Aurora$50,0001n/a
Prodigy Ventures Inc$50,00022%
Colorado Future Farmers of America Foundation$50,00012%
Thorne Ecological Institute$50,00012%
Co-Lead International$50,000119%
Metro Caring$50,00010%
Western Rivers Conservancy$50,00010%
Long Beach Rescue Mission$50,00011%
Home Trust of Ouray County$50,00025%
Colorado Black Arts Movement$50,000143%
Salt and Light Together Inc$49,2624n/a
Southern Arizona Law Enforcement Foundation Inc$45,48828%
Special Education Leader Fellowship$45,00011%
Belvidere Foundation$45,000235%
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society$45,00032%
Mesa County Public Library Foundation$45,00015%
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific$45,00040%
Transformative Leadership for Change$45,0001n/a
Inner City Health Center$45,00020%
Family Resource Center Association$45,00011%
Taos County Economic Development Corp$45,00046%
Montrose Recreation District$45,0002n/a
Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc$45,00020%
North London Mill Preservation Inc$45,000229%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawaii Inc$42,00060%
Bishop Museum$40,50060%
5280 High School$40,0001n/a
Build Pagosa Inc$40,00019%
Victor Museum Improvement Association$40,000142%
Town of Rico$40,0001n/a
Hilltop Health Services Corporation$40,00010%
Alta Vista Center for Autism$40,00011%
Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization$40,00014%
Public Education & Business Coalition$40,00010%
The Great Outdoors Fund$40,00015%
Climb Higher Colorado$40,000133%
The Powerhouse$40,00013%
Farmers Conservation Alliance$40,00010%
Camp Kesem National$40,00020%
Griffith Centers$40,00010%
Roots Colorado Inc$40,00013%
Gear Alliance Inc$40,0001n/a
Denver Rescue Mission$40,00010%
The Kohala Center$40,00060%
Smartypants Inc$40,0002n/a
Bridge House$40,00010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach$40,00050%
Mountain Family Health Centers$40,00010%
The Freshwater Trust$40,00010%
Karis Inc$40,00021%
Civico$40,00014%
Spanish Peaks Community Foundation$40,0001n/a
Teens Inc$40,00011%
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County Inc$40,00011%
Community Ministry of Sw Denver$40,00012%
Pcs for People$40,00010%
Battle Rock Charter School$40,00013%
Project Restart Inc$40,0001n/a
Tact Kids Inc$40,00012%
Latino Cultural Arts Center$40,00017%
Wonderbound$40,00011%
Riverside Educational Center$40,00011%
Heartbeat Denver Inc$40,0001n/a
Step Springs$38,11911%
Hawaii Wildlife Center$37,50061%
Fresh Start Inc$35,000218%
Chanda Center for Health$35,0001n/a
Mancos Common Press Inc$35,000117%
Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc$35,00013%
Blue Lake Preschool Inc$35,0001n/a
Kindred Kids Child Advocacy Center$35,000112%
Museo de Las Americas$35,00013%
Archuleta County Education Center Inc$35,00012%
Advance Inc$35,0001n/a
Hope Center Inc$35,00021%
High Rockies Community School$35,000114%
Our Turn Inc$35,00012%
Newfarms Inc$35,0001n/a
California Youth Empowerment Services$35,0001n/a
Rino Gives Back$35,00015%
Harp Foundation$35,000113%
College of American Pathologists$35,00020%
Garden of the Gods Foundation$35,00011%
Radian Placematters Inc$35,00023%
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today$35,00024%
Alliance Francaise de Denver$35,00017%
Ralston House$35,0001n/a
Haven House of Montrose Inc$35,00014%
Littleton Town Hall Arts Center$35,00011%
The Yampa Building Foundation$35,0001n/a
Marillac Clinic Inc$35,00010%
Birds of Prey Foundation$34,00034%
Tahoe Rim Trail Association$34,00061%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$30,00010%
Wedontwaste Inc$30,00010%
Chicano Humanities and Arts Council Inc$30,00028%
Chance Sports$30,00014%
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc$30,00010%
Atlas Preparatory School Inc$30,00010%
Eagle Valley Land Trust$30,00012%
Stratton Area Foundation 2 Inc$30,000128%
Full Circle of Lake County Inc$30,00012%
Crown Pointe Academy$30,00010%
Colo Foundation for Water Education$30,00014%
40 West Arts Inc$30,000118%
Tall Tales Ranch$30,00013%
Outreach United Resource Center Inc$30,00010%
Paradox Community Trust$30,00011%
Hart Center for Public Service$30,0001n/a
Roots Family Center$30,00017%
Access Gallery$30,00013%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$30,00010%
City of Wheat Ridge$30,0001n/a
Youth Seen$30,00012%
Roshni$30,00016%
Raise the Future$30,0001n/a
Denver Zoological Foundation$30,0001n/a
Grand Lake Area Historial Society$30,00017%
Community Health Partnership (Chp)$30,00011%
Sober Apartment Living CO$30,00013%
Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc$30,00010%
Jefferson Center for Mental Health$30,00010%
Tiny Tim Center Inc Dba Tlc Learning Center$30,00011%
Revision$30,00021%
Musical Theatre West$30,00030%
Pinnacle School$30,0001n/a
Kiowa County Hospital Distric$30,0001n/a
San Juan County Historical Society$30,0001n/a
Community Coalition for Families and Children$30,00012%
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit$30,00012%
Posada$30,00011%
Mongolian School of Colorado$30,000112%
San Luis Valley Great Outdoors$30,00013%
Lift Up of Routt County$30,0001n/a
Huerfano Community Corporation$30,0001n/a
Acequia Institute$30,000115%
Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center Inc$30,00017%
Foothills Art Center Inc$30,00012%
English in Action$30,00011%
Museum of Glass$29,43260%
Pratt Fine Arts Center$29,43260%
Rim Country Rotary Club Foundation Inc$29,410610%
Mogollon Sporting Association Inc$29,40969%
Biggest Little Trail Stewardship Inc$28,996612%
Friends of the Future$28,50060%
Mountain Studies Institue$27,50011%
Colorado Academy$26,00060%
YWCA Boulder County$25,00012%
Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre$25,00011%
Laradon Hall Society for Exceptional Children and Adults$25,00010%
Loaves and Fishes Ministries of Fremont County Inc$25,00011%
Eureka McConnell Science Museum$25,00011%
Wellspring Community$25,0001n/a
Greeley Creative District$25,00011%
The Other Side Academy$25,00010%
Hinsdale County$25,0001n/a
Recovery Cafe Longmont$25,0001n/a
Partners of Parks$25,00015%
Great Education Colorado$25,00014%
Magic Circle Players$25,00016%
Clifton Christian Church Food Bank$25,00016%
Field of Dreams 20$25,00019%
Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly$25,00030%
Children Today Inc$25,00012%
Mile High Ministries$25,00011%
Grand Valley Creative Alliance$25,00012%
Ouray Ice Park Inc$25,00015%
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Long Beach$25,00010%
Vindeket$25,00011%
Holyoke Community Childcare$25,000111%
Conservation Lands Foundation$25,00010%
Continental Divide Trail Coalition$25,00012%
Mountain Village Montessori Charter School$25,00011%
Mercy Housing Mountain Plains$25,00010%
Friends of la Veta Library Inc$25,0001n/a
City of Fort Collins$25,0001n/a
AXIS International Academy$25,00011%
Western Colorado Alliance$25,0001n/a
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc$25,00016%
Exponential Impact$25,00011%
Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen$25,00011%
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers$25,000152%
Kim Robards Dance Inc$25,00026%
The Urban Institute$25,00010%
Karvel Community Alliance Inc$25,000129%
Memorial Medical Center Foundation$25,00010%
Friends of Levitt Pavilion Denver$25,00011%
Mountain Roots Food Project$25,00012%
Women's Bean Project$25,00011%
Denver Area Youth For Christ Inc$25,00011%
Dream Tree Project$25,00040%
City of Manitou Springs$25,0001n/a
Friends of the Children - Colorado$25,00014%
United Way of Weld County Inc$25,00010%
Friends of Dinosaur Ridge$25,00011%
Center for the Arts Evergreen Inc$25,00012%
Gunnison Council for the Arts$25,00013%
National Museum of World War II Aviation Inc$25,00012%
Cultivando$25,00012%
Ithaka Land Inc$25,00014%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County$25,00011%
Montessori del Mundo Charter School$25,00010%
Art Students League of Denver$25,00021%
Veterans Community Project$25,00010%
City of Pueblo$25,0001n/a
Colorado Photographic Arts Center Inc$25,00014%
Flame Lily Montessori$25,000125%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project$25,00010%
Grassroots Foundation Inc$25,000126%
Marble Charter School$25,00012%
Highline Academy$25,00010%
Street Fraternity Inc$25,00011%
Golden Backpack Program Inc$25,00014%
Pikes Peak United Way$25,00010%
Colorado Asian Pacific United$25,00018%
University of Minnesota Foundation$25,00030%
Community Agriculture Alliance Inc$25,00012%
La Fiesta de Las Seis Banderas Inc$24,00060%
Step 2 Inc$23,00040%
Hawaii Preparatory Academy$23,00051%
Kona Historical Society$22,50062%
The Friends of Iolani Palace$22,50030%
Guidestone$22,50025%
Truckee Dirt Union$21,07546%
Spreading Threads Clothing Bank$21,00062%
St Anthony Foundation$20,5006n/a
La Raza Services Inc$20,00010%
Denver Press Club$20,000115%
Court Appointed Special Advocate Inc$20,00011%
United Way of the Yampa Valley$20,00012%
Rocky Mountain Community Radio$20,000112%
Sister Carmen Community Center Inc$20,00010%
Post 1 Foundation$20,00012%
Middle Park Medical Foundation$20,00017%
Crossroads Safehouse Inc$20,0001n/a
Bent County Historical Society$20,000117%
Colorado Enterprise Fund$20,00010%
Colorado Homeless Families Inc$20,00011%
Kidspak Inc$20,00012%
The Archer Group$20,00011%
Growing Gardens of Boulder County$20,00011%
Grand Mesa Nordic Council Inc$20,00012%
East End Arts District Association$20,0001n/a
Achieve Inc$20,000112%
Central City Opera House Association$20,00010%
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc$20,00015%
No Barriers USA$20,00011%
Aledo Isd Education Foundation$20,00022%
ENGLEWOOD DEPOT INC aka Letterpress Depot$20,000128%
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum$20,00011%
Independence Academy$20,00010%
State Historical Society of Colorado the Colorado State Museum$20,0001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Boulder Valley$20,00010%
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project$20,00011%
Chinook Fund Inc$20,00012%
Developmental Fx Developmental & Fragile X Resource$20,00012%
Community Radio Project Inc Ksjd$20,00013%
The Art Center of Western Colorado Inc$20,00012%
Sangre de Christo Acequia Association$20,0001n/a
Maslow Academy of Applied Learning Inc$20,00011%
WI Cook Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Bright Future Foundation for Eagle County$20,00010%
Focus Points Family Resource Center$20,00011%
Full Circle Program Inc$20,00011%
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary$20,00011%
Montrose Memorial Hospital Inc$20,00010%
Colorado News Collaborative$20,00013%
Colorado National Monument Association$20,00017%
Savio House$20,00010%
Center for Independence Inc$20,00011%
The Sopris Sun Inc$20,00012%
Lyons Elevating All Fund$20,00011%
Wake Forest University$20,00040%
Respite Care Inc$20,00010%
Jesus on Colfax Ministries$20,00014%
National Veterans Hiring Association$20,0001n/a
The Center for People With Disabilities$20,00011%
Grand Lake Creative District$20,00014%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition$20,00010%
Break Bread$20,0001n/a
City of Craig$20,0001n/a
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum$20,00014%
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation$20,00021%
GreenLatinos$20,00010%
Kids First Health Care$20,00010%
Ekar$20,00013%
Housing Colorado$20,00011%
Mountain Tots Preschool$20,00012%
Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley$20,00012%
RTL Foundation$20,000125%
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc$20,0001n/a
Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre Foundation$20,00019%
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc$20,00011%
Grief Center of Southwest Colorado$20,00013%
Colorado Freedom of Info Council$20,000113%
The Urban Farm$20,00011%
Food Finders Inc$20,0001n/a
Springboard Child Care Inc$20,00019%
Custer 2020 Inc$20,00016%
Moffat Road Railroad Museum Association$20,00014%
Vision Home and Community$20,00011%
Colorado Rural Alliance Foundation$18,000115%
The Outdoor Circle$18,00022%
Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship$17,50060%
Highland Park High School PTA$17,49621%
Kent Denver Country Day School$16,00050%
Wheat Ridge 2020 Inc$15,0001n/a
Kids in Need of Dentistry$15,00011%
The Denver Santa Clause Shop Inc$15,00017%
Chaffee County Childcare$15,00018%
Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation$15,00015%
Main Street Live Ltd$15,000112%
First Baptist Church$15,0001n/a
Huerfano Las Animas Area Council of Governments$15,0001n/a
Tucson Refugee Ministry$15,00013%
Creede Repertory Theatre$15,00011%
Integrated Community$15,00011%
Friends of Raymer Inc$15,000118%
Vintage Theatre$15,00012%
The Alliance For Collective Action$15,00011%
Academy 360$15,00011%
Conservation Investment Germinator$15,00016%
Colorado Inclusive Economy$15,0001n/a
Seasons Schoolhouse Inc Wonderland Nature School$15,00018%
Be the Gift Incorporated$15,00013%
Ability Connection Colorado Inc$15,00010%
South Park Rail Society$15,00015%
Walking Mountains$15,00010%
Hopeaustin$15,0001n/a
Solar Energy International$15,00011%
Alaya Preschool$15,0001n/a
Arise Rwanda Ministries Inc$15,00031%
Lincoln Hills Cares$15,00011%
Concrete Couch$15,00014%
The Village Institute$15,00011%
Community Food Share Inc$15,00010%
Therapeutic Ranch for Animals and Kids$15,00012%
Lake County Community Fund$15,0001n/a
Adaman Club$15,0001n/a
Boss Generation$15,0001n/a
Beulah Heritage Preservation League$15,0001n/a
Denver Food Rescue$15,00011%
Family Tree Inc$15,00010%
Colorado Forum Fund Inc$13,50016%
The Sand County Foundation Inc$13,00010%
Kute Inc Dba Ksut Public Radio$13,00010%
Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital$12,00040%
YMCA of Southern Arizona$11,9701n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii$11,00050%
East High Angel Foundation$10,46012%
Compass for Lifelong Discovery$10,00010%
Platteforum$10,00012%
River Bridge Regional Center Inc$10,00011%
Wright Stuff Community Foundation$10,00014%
South Park Historical Foundation$10,00013%
Highwater Farm$10,0001n/a
The Avalon Theatre Foundation Inc$10,000111%
Yuma County Economic Development Inc$10,0001n/a
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy$10,00010%
Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center$10,00012%
Cloud City Conservation Center$10,0001n/a
Loveland Youth Gardeners$10,00015%
Denver Museum of Miniatures Dolls & Toys$10,00017%
Book Trails Inc$10,00013%
Multiplier$10,00010%
Marguerite Kiefer Education Center Inc$10,00013%
Fundamental Needs Inc$10,00012%
The Family Centerla Familia$10,00011%
Chaffee Housing Trust$10,00012%
Town of Bristol Improvements Board$10,0001n/a
Portland Child Art Studio$10,00053%
Little Bird Creative Community$10,0001n/a
There With Care$10,00010%
Highland Park Boy's Lacrosse Inc$10,00021%
Step 1 Inc$10,00021%
Higher Ground Bmx$10,000118%
Unity Unlimited Inc$10,00012%
Philanthropy Colorado$10,00012%
Collaborative Impact Fund of Denver$10,0001n/a
Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles$10,0001n/a
Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden$9,82230%
The Cornucopia Institute Inc$9,50031%
The Food Basket Inc$8,00010%
Colorado Watershed Assembly$7,50011%
Brookfield School$7,000236%
Stanford Health Care$7,00020%
Urban Roots Garden Classrooms$6,75511%
Planet Women$6,50030%
Austin County Peace Officers Association Acpoa$6,5001n/a
Polynesian Voyaging Society$6,00030%
Aloha United Way Inc$6,00030%
Sove Lavi$5,0001n/a
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies$5,00010%
American Brownstone Institute$5,00020%
Leman Academy of Excellence Inc$5,00010%
Education Renaissance Of Nevada Initiative$5,0001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$5,00010%
Alamosa School District$5,0001n/a
The Delores Project$5,00010%
Open Medicine Foundation$5,00010%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc$4,48810%
Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc$4,15720%
Napili Kai Foundation$4,00021%
Paniolo Preservation Society$4,00021%
Ecumenical Hunger Program$4,00020%
Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation$3,00011%
New Voice Strategies Nfp$2,500125%
Civilization Works$2,50010%
Sun Valley Community Center$2,50010%
United Plant Savers$2,5001n/a
Historic Routt County$1,00011%
Hayden Heritage Center$50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 255 recipients with no EIN on record ($58M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gates Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 30 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $44,620,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $12,925,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $7,250,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $4,250,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetWilliam J Palmer Parks Foundation Inc: $3,450,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetLyra: $2,892,500 over 6y, 100% of budgetRooted: $2,590,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetRio Grande Headwaters Land Trust: $2,515,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,250,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetElevation Community Land Trust: $1,700,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetThe Western Stock Show Association: $1,155,707 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $952,074 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGates Biomanufacturing Facility Sup Foundation: $925,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBicycle Colorado: $745,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetHigh Line Canal Conservancy: $700,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetColorado Coalition of Land Trusts: $695,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetAmerica Succeeds: $690,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetRocky Mountain Public Media Inc: $660,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNational Fish and Wildlife Foundation: $650,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Land Conservancy: $640,246 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $634,754 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMontezuma Land Conservancy: $591,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetColorado Schools Fund: $550,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $535,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Colorado Prevention Center: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCenter for Community Wealth Building: $490,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetNational Trust for Local News: $462,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Builders: $435,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetColorado Water Trust: $380,466 over 3y, 12% of budgetWestern Landowners Alliance: $380,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMontbello Organizing Committee: $375,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetColorado League of Charter Schools: $365,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $363,965 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKeystone Center: $360,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetColorado Children's Campaign: $350,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMoonshot edVentures: $340,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetArtspace Projects Inc: $325,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCivic News Company: $325,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $315,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWater Foundation: $300,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRise Colorado: $298,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLong Beach State Foundation: $290,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $270,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $270,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetEnterprise Community Partners Inc: $265,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Schools Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

The Colorado Health FoundationCO154.8× affinity201 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Boettcher Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Trust

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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Find your warmest path to Gates Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Gates Family Foundation

How much does Gates Family Foundation give?
Gates Family Foundation reported 374 grants totaling $36,321,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 248 and 324 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Gates Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Social Science (20%), Environment (9%).
Who are Gates Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($45M), University of Denver ($13M), Cardigan Mountain School ($7.3M).
Does Gates Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gates Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gates Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is Gates Family Foundation based?
Gates Family Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 974 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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