Colorado · Private foundation
Louis Calder Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 70
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $194M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Louis Calder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 | 35 | $6.9M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $7.9M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $8.1M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $8.8M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $7.9M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $6.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund | $4,050,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Array Education Inc | $1,750,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Springboard Collaborative | $1,600,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Achievement First Inc | $1,250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cambiar Education | $1,200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Kipp New York Inc | $1,200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kipp Foundation | $1,200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jeremiah Program | $1,200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Instruction Partners | $1,125,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Impact Public Schools | $1,095,000 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 127 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Louis Calder Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 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: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · New Schools Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · City Fund · Gates Foundation · Daniels Fund · 50can Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Robin Hood Foundation · The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Rooted
How this is measured
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About Louis Calder Foundation
- How much does Louis Calder Foundation give?
- Louis Calder Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $6,877,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 70 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Louis Calder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (92%), Human Services (4%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are Louis Calder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund ($4.0M), Array Education Inc ($1.8M), Springboard Collaborative ($1.6M).
- Does Louis Calder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis Calder Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louis Calder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, New Schools Fund, Walton Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Louis Calder Foundation based?
- Louis Calder Foundation is based in CO.
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