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Montrose Community Foundation
The Mission and Purpose of the Montrose Community Foundation is to: * Seek and Embrace Innovative Ideas * Connect Charitable Donors to Community Causes * Promote Worthwhile Community Projects and Partnerships
- $958k
- Granted FY2023
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $656k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $125,966
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 8
- Total assets, FY2023
- $7.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Montrose Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 22 | $656k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $289k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $482k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $227k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $85k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $274k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
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 FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose Recreation District | $300,909 | 5 | n/a |
| Casa of the Seventh Judicial District Inc | $94,277 | 4 | 6% |
| Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc | $89,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $84,617 | 1 | 1% |
| San Juan Leads Serves | $62,800 | 2 | 62% |
| Grand Canyon University | $58,395 | 2 | 0% |
| Montrose Regional Library District | $52,275 | 4 | n/a |
| The Kit Faragher Foundation | $51,231 | 1 | 59% |
| Iowa 4-H Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Libraries of Montrose County Foundation | $39,882 | 2 | 19% |
Show all 44 grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($681k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Montrose Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Jeffrey & Janet Quay Charitable Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Muchnic Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Telluride Foundation · Donald and Jenny Horn Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation
How this is measured
About Montrose Community Foundation
- How much does Montrose Community Foundation give?
- Montrose Community Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $655,531, out of $957,890 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Montrose Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (33%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Montrose Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Montrose Recreation District ($301k), Casa of the Seventh Judicial District Inc ($94k), Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc ($90k).
- Does Montrose Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Montrose Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rocky Mountain Health Foundation, Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, Jeffrey & Janet Quay Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Montrose Community Foundation based?
- Montrose Community Foundation is based in CO.
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