Colorado · Public charity
Onward a Legacy Foundation
Onward! Is a tax-exempt, non-profit community foundation organized for public charity purposes. Onward!'s mission is to provide opportunities to develop and maintain a sustainable resource base that will enhance the quality of life for residents in the four corners' communities.
- $442k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $353k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $13,649
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $158,589
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Onward a Legacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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 | 10 | $353k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $815k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $285k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $222k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $285k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $705k | 93% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $203k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $155k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bridge Emergency Shelter | $299,500 | 8 | 35% |
| Durango Food Bank | $275,500 | 2 | 15% |
| The Fort Lewis College Foundation | $215,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Good Samaritan Center | $157,540 | 4 | 17% |
| Cortez Animal Shelter | $106,150 | 6 | n/a |
| Community Radio Project Inc Ksjd | $68,000 | 5 | 2% |
| La Plata Family Centers Coalition | $54,735 | 2 | 4% |
| Montezuma County Public | $46,058 | 2 | n/a |
| National Mustang Association Inc | $39,869 | 1 | n/a |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $37,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 73 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Onward a Legacy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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: Trailhead Institute · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Energy Outreach Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Ballantine Family Fund
How this is measured
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About Onward a Legacy Foundation
- How much does Onward a Legacy Foundation give?
- Onward a Legacy Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $352,992, out of $441,892 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Onward a Legacy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Housing & Shelter (10%), Education (8%).
- Who are Onward a Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Bridge Emergency Shelter ($300k), Durango Food Bank ($276k), The Fort Lewis College Foundation ($215k).
- Does Onward a Legacy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Onward a Legacy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trailhead Institute, El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Onward a Legacy Foundation based?
- Onward a Legacy Foundation is based in CO.
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