How much does Nagel Foundation give?

Nagel Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,555,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Nagel Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Education (21%), Public Benefit (7%).

Who are Nagel Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Alliance for Choice in Education ($1.4M), Advance Colorado ($825k), Inner-City School Inc ($540k).

Does Nagel Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nagel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nagel Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Daniels Fund.

Where is Nagel Foundation based?

Nagel Foundation is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Nagel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 30%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $70,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $761,500
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 27; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $23M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Nagel 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; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$784k	25%
FY2024	10	$815k	30%
FY2023	6	$236k	33%
FY2022	6	$143k	0%
FY2021	7	$149k	0%
FY2020	18	$947k	28%
FY2019	27	$978k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$6.4MEducation$2.0MPublic Benefit$628kHousing & Shelter$135kEnvironment$109kPhilanthropy$60kYouth Development$60kArts & Culture$51kOther$0

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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alliance for Choice in Education	$1,385,000	4	2%
Advance Colorado	$825,000	3	8%
Inner-City School Inc	$540,000	7	18%
Step Denver	$160,000	6	2%
Girls With Books	$130,000	3	13%
Energy Made Visible	$108,900	3	n/a
Mothering Across Continents Inc	$105,000	2	11%
Communio Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Dream Inspiration Kenya	$70,000	1	19%
Caruso Family Charities	$60,000	2	4%

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All grantees of Nagel Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alliance for Choice in Education	$1,385,000	4	2%
Advance Colorado	$825,000	3	8%
Inner-City School Inc	$540,000	7	18%
Step Denver	$160,000	6	2%
Girls With Books	$130,000	3	13%
Energy Made Visible	$108,900	3	n/a
Mothering Across Continents Inc	$105,000	2	11%
Communio Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Dream Inspiration Kenya	$70,000	1	19%
Caruso Family Charities	$60,000	2	4%
Archdiocese of Denver	$50,000	1	n/a
Fellowship of Catholic University Students	$40,000	4	n/a
Kiwanis Club of Lakewood Foundation	$35,000	1	9%
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Opera Colorado	$19,000	4	0%
Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc	$16,000	5	0%
Turning Point USA Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Prager University Foundation	$15,000	3	0%
Art Students League of Denver	$14,000	4	0%
Leon Co	$10,000	1	n/a
Judicial Watch Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Project Education Sudan	$10,000	1	6%
Regis University	$10,000	1	0%
Institute for Justice	$10,000	2	0%
Rino Art District	$10,000	1	n/a
Arrupe Jesuit High School	$10,000	1	n/a
Seeds of Hope	$10,000	1	n/a
Center for Individual Rights	$7,500	2	0%
Cato Institute	$7,500	2	0%
Common Sense Institute	$5,000	1	n/a
Colorado Christian University	$5,000	1	0%
Denver Art Museum	$5,000	1	0%
Greater Park Hill Community Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Special Olympics Colorado	$3,500	1	0%
Colorado Council on Economic Education	$2,500	1	n/a
Colorado Watercolor Society	$2,500	1	5%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($245k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nagel Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Pema Foundation Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Galena Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Nagel Foundation

How much does Nagel Foundation give?: Nagel Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,555,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Nagel Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Education (21%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are Nagel Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Alliance for Choice in Education ($1.4M), Advance Colorado ($825k), Inner-City School Inc ($540k).
Does Nagel Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nagel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nagel Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Daniels Fund.
Where is Nagel Foundation based?: Nagel Foundation is based in CO.