How much does Genesis Foundation give?

Genesis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $335,331 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Genesis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Health (7%).

Who are Genesis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lutheran Social Services of Colorado ($310k), Nourish Meals on Wheels ($147k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($145k).

Does Genesis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Genesis 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 Genesis Foundation?

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

Where is Genesis Foundation based?

Genesis Foundation is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Genesis 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.

$335k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $35,331
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 17; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $4.4M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Genesis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther

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	10	$335k	0%
FY2024	10	$304k	10%
FY2023	10	$200k	30%
FY2022	11	$198k	27%
FY2021	17	$295k	47%
FY2020	15	$258k	53%
FY2019	16	$210k	31%
FY2018	13	$198k	46%

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$939kFood & Nutrition$312kHealth$150kYouth Development$140kArts & Culture$105kAnimals$93kEducation$75kCommunity Improvement$60kOther$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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado	$310,000	5	1%
Nourish Meals on Wheels	$146,500	9	3%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$145,000	3	0%
Denver Rescue Mission	$140,000	6	0%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc	$105,072	9	0%
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary	$101,331	4	2%
Gbscidp Foundation International Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Ocean Conservancy	$34,000	3	0%
Easter Seals Colorado	$32,500	1	0%
American Home Finding Association	$25,250	6	0%

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All grantees of Genesis Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado	$310,000	5	1%
Nourish Meals on Wheels	$146,500	9	3%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$145,000	3	0%
Denver Rescue Mission	$140,000	6	0%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc	$105,072	9	0%
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary	$101,331	4	2%
Gbscidp Foundation International Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Ocean Conservancy	$34,000	3	0%
Easter Seals Colorado	$32,500	1	0%
American Home Finding Association	$25,250	6	0%
Alliance for Choice in Education	$25,000	3	0%
Southern Iowa Mental Health Center	$25,000	5	0%
Denver Dumb Friends League	$25,000	4	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$20,250	2	0%
Special Olympics Colorado	$20,000	2	0%
Stand Up to Cancer	$10,000	1	n/a
Haven of Hope	$7,500	1	1%
Peace of Adventure	$5,000	1	n/a
National Mill Dog Rescue	$5,000	1	0%
Urban Youth Ministries	$5,000	2	1%
Veterans Bridge Home Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Gentle Barn Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Padi Aware Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Main Street Ottumwa	$100	1	0%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($933k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Genesis 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 22.

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 FoundationCO18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Genesis Foundation

How much does Genesis Foundation give?: Genesis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $335,331 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Genesis Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Health (7%).
Who are Genesis Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lutheran Social Services of Colorado ($310k), Nourish Meals on Wheels ($147k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($145k).
Does Genesis Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Genesis 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 Genesis Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Schlessman Foundation Inc, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Genesis Foundation based?: Genesis Foundation is based in CO.