Colorado · Private foundation
Natural Pathways Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $12k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,075
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $578k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Natural Pathways Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $12k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $10k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $22k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $24k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $4k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $4k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $20k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $4k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Hill Foundation | $6,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Shanta Foundation Inc | $3,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Beth Evergreen Congregation | $3,671 | 8 | n/a |
| San Juan Citizens Alliance | $2,878 | 6 | 0% |
| Movement Voter Fund | $2,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Weekend Backpacks Baltimore Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mancos Valley Dragonfly School | $1,740 | 3 | 0% |
| Love Serve Remember Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Kute Inc Dba Ksut Public Radio | $1,426 | 5 | 0% |
| Durango Sangha | $1,210 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Natural Pathways 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 · The Erteszek Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Team Up · The Moniker Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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About Natural Pathways Foundation
- How much does Natural Pathways Foundation give?
- Natural Pathways Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $12,086 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Natural Pathways Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (13%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Natural Pathways Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Deer Hill Foundation ($6k), Shanta Foundation Inc ($4k), Beth Evergreen Congregation ($4k).
- Does Natural Pathways Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Natural Pathways 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 Natural Pathways Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Erteszek Foundation, Ballantine Family Fund.
- Where is Natural Pathways Foundation based?
- Natural Pathways Foundation is based in CO.
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