Colorado · Private foundation
Genesee Mountain 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.
- $855k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $184,242
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 54
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Genesee Mountain 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; $28k 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 | 58 | $855k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $710k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $575k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $611k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $529k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $495k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $606k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Center for the Performing Arts | $884,501 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado Symphony Association | $519,152 | 7 | 1% |
| Colorado Ballet | $295,700 | 7 | 1% |
| American Friends of the Louvre Inc | $158,721 | 7 | 1% |
| Project Angel Heart | $142,600 | 7 | 1% |
| Denver Art Museum | $132,490 | 6 | 0% |
| Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary | $130,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Opera Colorado | $120,448 | 7 | 1% |
| Boulder County AIDS Project | $119,737 | 7 | 1% |
| The Rustic Pathways Foundation Inc | $115,119 | 1 | 38% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Genesee Mountain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na
How this is measured
About Genesee Mountain Foundation
- How much does Genesee Mountain Foundation give?
- Genesee Mountain Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $855,258 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 54 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Genesee Mountain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (6%).
- Who are Genesee Mountain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Denver Center for the Performing Arts ($885k), Colorado Symphony Association ($519k), Colorado Ballet ($296k).
- Does Genesee Mountain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Genesee Mountain 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 Genesee Mountain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Genesee Mountain Foundation based?
- Genesee Mountain Foundation is based in CO.
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