Colorado · Private foundation
Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $281k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 46 | $281k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $370k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $370k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $344k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $316k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $158k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $180k | 3% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $310,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Noco Humane | $77,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Teller County Regional Animal Shelt | $77,723 | 9 | 2% |
| Upper Rio Grande Animal Society | $74,900 | 9 | 8% |
| Paragon Service Dogs | $71,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $67,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Pagosa Springs | $67,400 | 9 | 1% |
| Hamlett Spay & Neuter Clinic Inc | $63,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Longmont Humane Society Inc | $60,200 | 9 | 0% |
| The Maxfund Inc | $52,425 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($959k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Elizabeth Bates 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund · Animal Assistance Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Lucile Drinkwater Allen Trust · Alice Jenkins Foundation · Corrales Friends of Animals Foundation Dba Dennis Friends Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Petco Love · BISSELL Pet Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation
- How much does Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation give?
- Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $281,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (85%), Health (7%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Dumb Friends League ($311k), Noco Humane ($78k), Teller County Regional Animal Shelt ($78k).
- Does Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund, Animal Assistance Foundation.
- Where is Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation based?
- Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation is based in CO.
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