Colorado · Private foundation
McDaniel Family 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.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations McDaniel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 14 | $256k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $250k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $191k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $177k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $151k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $187k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $94k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $78k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terolyn Horse Rescue Inc | $674,377 | 9 | 46% |
| Reel Recovery Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 4% |
| University of Wyoming Foundation | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends School Inc | $51,123 | 3 | 1% |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $15,842 | 2 | 0% |
| Local Theater Company | $14,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Kids' Food Basket Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fountain Valley School of Colorado | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($407k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McDaniel Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About McDaniel Family Foundation
- How much does McDaniel Family Foundation give?
- McDaniel Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $255,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McDaniel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (46%), Education (12%), Health (11%).
- Who are McDaniel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Terolyn Horse Rescue Inc ($674k), Reel Recovery Inc ($90k), University of Wyoming Foundation ($70k).
- Does McDaniel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McDaniel Family 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 McDaniel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is McDaniel Family Foundation based?
- McDaniel Family Foundation is based in CO.
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