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Libby Anschutz 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.

$150k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$10k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Libby Anschutz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$150k0%
FY202316$238k19%
FY202221$205k19%
FY202112$226k67%
FY202020$291kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$675kArts & Culture$113kPhilanthropy$105kRecreation & Sports$85kHealth$64kYouth Development$34kInternational$20kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($234k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Libby Anschutz Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKent Denver Country Day School: $280,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Educational Excellence: $175,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFountain Valley School of Colorado: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmp the Cause: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal Down Syndrome Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDavis Love III Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTake Note Colorado: $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetGlobal Livingston Institute: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Junior Golf: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGraland Country Day School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget50 in 52 Journey: $15,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetColorado Symphony Association: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetComeback Yoga: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMusic Will Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Music Hall of Fame: $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetRedline: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDenver School of Science and Technology Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDo It for the Love: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDenver Scholarship Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCivic Center Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHeadwaters Life Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetChildren's Diabetes Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Children's Mental Disorders: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlta Vista Center for Autism: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarlem Educational Activities Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 29.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO28.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · The Morgridge Family Foundation

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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How do I get to Libby Anschutz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Libby Anschutz 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 Libby Anschutz Foundation

How much does Libby Anschutz Foundation give?
Libby Anschutz Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Libby Anschutz Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Arts & Culture (10%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Libby Anschutz Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kent Denver Country Day School ($280k), Foundation for Educational Excellence ($175k), Fountain Valley School of Colorado ($50k).
Does Libby Anschutz Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Libby Anschutz 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 Libby Anschutz Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Anschutz Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Libby Anschutz Foundation based?
Libby Anschutz 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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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