Colorado · Private foundation
Margolis 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.
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Margolis 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; $26k 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 | 10 | $345k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $127k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $201k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $326k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $255k | 81% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $160k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $201,330 | 3 | 1% |
| Chabad of Palm Coast Inc | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Congregation Kol Shalom Inc | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Great Peninsula Conservancy | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bainbridge Island Land Trust | $17,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Joy of Living Judaism | $16,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Helpline House | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad of Seattle | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kitsap Humane Society | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Sound Wildlife Shelter | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $201,330 | 3 | 1% |
| Chabad of Palm Coast Inc | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Congregation Kol Shalom Inc | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Great Peninsula Conservancy | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bainbridge Island Land Trust | $17,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Joy of Living Judaism | $16,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Helpline House | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chabad of Seattle | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kitsap Humane Society | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Sound Wildlife Shelter | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Harold Grinspoon Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas City University | $9,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Sister Jose Women's Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Islandwood | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc | $1,600 | 6 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $1,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | $1,000 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Margolis 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: Bainbridge Community Foundation · One Call for All · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Stollman Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Margolis Foundation
- How much does Margolis Foundation give?
- Margolis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $345,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Margolis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Human Services (16%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Margolis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service ($201k), Chabad of Palm Coast Inc ($35k), Congregation Kol Shalom Inc ($30k).
- Does Margolis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margolis 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 Margolis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bainbridge Community Foundation, One Call for All, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
- Where is Margolis Foundation based?
- Margolis Foundation is based in CO.
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