Missouri · Private foundation
Lipe Walter E Char
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $55k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2026
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 8% of the organizations Lipe Walter E Char funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 11 | $55k | 27% |
| FY2025 | 12 | $65k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $77k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $60k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $40k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $48k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $53k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Angel Heart | $62,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Heart of Boardwalk | $37,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wedontwaste Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Children's Home | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Children's Advocacy Center | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Morgan Adams Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Karis Community | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Colorado Safe Parking Initiative | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lipe Walter E Char 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 · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · The Anschutz Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About Lipe Walter E Char
- How much does Lipe Walter E Char give?
- Lipe Walter E Char reported 11 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Lipe Walter E Char fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (39%), Community Improvement (21%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Lipe Walter E Char's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Project Angel Heart ($63k), Heart of Boardwalk ($38k), Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc ($30k).
- Does Lipe Walter E Char fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lipe Walter E Char accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lipe Walter E Char?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Lipe Walter E Char based?
- Lipe Walter E Char is based in MO.
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