Colorado · Private foundation
Pathfinder Fund
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.
- $123k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $479k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Pathfinder Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 20 | $123k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $166k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $156k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $173k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $204k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $116k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $101k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $113k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rethinking Schools Limited | $200,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Verde Valley School | $142,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Eco-Logic Development Fund | $141,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Carleton College | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Grassroots International Inc | $20,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Network for Public Education Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 2% |
| De Novo Center for Justice and Healing | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($384k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pathfinder Fund supplied at peak.
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: Impactassetsinc · Our Part co Marsha Soffer · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The New World Foundation · California Community Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Patagoniaorg · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation
How this is measured
About Pathfinder Fund
- How much does Pathfinder Fund give?
- Pathfinder Fund reported 22 grants totaling $122,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Pathfinder Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Environment (29%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Pathfinder Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rethinking Schools Limited ($200k), Verde Valley School ($142k), Eco-Logic Development Fund ($141k).
- Does Pathfinder Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pathfinder Fund 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 Pathfinder Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Our Part co Marsha Soffer, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Pathfinder Fund based?
- Pathfinder Fund is based in CO.
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