Colorado · Private foundation
Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $875k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 18 | $875k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $865k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $870k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $925k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $920k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $960k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $855k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $485k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Colorado | $1,005,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $830,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $810,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Federation for Aging Research Inc | $650,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Nmdp Foundation | $640,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc | $380,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Bootstraps Inc | $315,000 | 9 | 41% |
| Mountain Area Land Trust | $270,000 | 6 | 5% |
| National Marrow Donor Program | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $190,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Colorado | $1,005,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $830,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $810,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Federation for Aging Research Inc | $650,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Nmdp Foundation | $640,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc | $380,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Bootstraps Inc | $315,000 | 9 | 41% |
| Mountain Area Land Trust | $270,000 | 6 | 5% |
| National Marrow Donor Program | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $190,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Zarlengo Foundation | $125,000 | 9 | 8% |
| University of Denver | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa of Jefferson and Gilpin Counties | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Angel Flight West Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of San Diego | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Angel Eyes | $20,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Goals | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Etm-Colorado Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Epic Experience | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation
- How much does Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation give?
- Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $875,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (64%), Education (24%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Colorado ($1.0M), Colorado Academy ($830k), Cancer Research Institute Inc ($810k).
- Does Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation based?
- Marion Esser Kaufmann Foundation is based in CO.
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