Colorado · Private foundation
Leatherwood 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.
- $202k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $86,567
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Leatherwood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 21 | $202k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $183k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $200k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $208k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $184k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $177k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $43,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | $34,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mesa Verde Foundation | $28,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $24,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Li Fraumeni Syndrome Association Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee | $22,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($573k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leatherwood Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Leatherwood Foundation
- How much does Leatherwood Foundation give?
- Leatherwood Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $202,133 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Leatherwood Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are Leatherwood Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($43k), The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement ($34k), Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc ($32k).
- Does Leatherwood Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leatherwood 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 Leatherwood Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Leatherwood Foundation based?
- Leatherwood Foundation is based in CO.
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