Colorado · Private foundation
Innovo Foundation
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.
- $436k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations Innovo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $341k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $576k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $899k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $576k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $271k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $271k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $213k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $192k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource Central | $560,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Conservation Colorado Education Fund | $287,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Conservation Colorado | $151,000 | 2 | 5% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Goodpower Education Fund Inc | $138,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Urban Movement Labs | $110,000 | 1 | 25% |
| New Era Colorado Foundation | $83,000 | 8 | 1% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $78,090 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Independent Foundation | $67,170 | 1 | 0% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $55,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($874k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Innovo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 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: Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · AEC Trust · United States Energy Foundation · Steiner King Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Innovo Foundation
- How much does Innovo Foundation give?
- Innovo Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $435,844 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Innovo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (53%), Philanthropy (15%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are Innovo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Resource Central ($560k), Conservation Colorado Education Fund ($288k), Conservation Colorado ($151k).
- Does Innovo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Innovo 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 Innovo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Innovo Foundation based?
- Innovo Foundation is based in CO.
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