Colorado · Private foundation
Rocks Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $146k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Rocks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $146k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $127k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $132k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $145k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $118k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $73,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Front Range Community College Foundation | $56,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $54,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hillside Connection | $41,000 | 5 | 4% |
| StableStrides | $40,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bexley Strong | $38,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Springs Rescue Mission | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Care and Share Inc | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Partnership for Child Development | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $73,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Front Range Community College Foundation | $56,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $54,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hillside Connection | $41,000 | 5 | 4% |
| StableStrides | $40,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bexley Strong | $38,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Springs Rescue Mission | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Care and Share Inc | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Partnership for Child Development | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Dyslexia Foundation | $22,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Kids Passion Foundation | $20,000 | 5 | 80% |
| Children's Literacy Center Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tessa | $12,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Angels of America's Fallen | $6,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Crossfire Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic St Elmo and Chalk Creek Canyon Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| One October Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santiagos Boxing Club | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rocks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Ent Credit Union · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · The Marson Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation
How this is measured
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About Rocks Family Foundation
- How much does Rocks Family Foundation give?
- Rocks Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $146,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Rocks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (23%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Rocks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($73k), Front Range Community College Foundation ($56k), Craig Hospital Foundation ($54k).
- Does Rocks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rocks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rocks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation, The Myron Stratton Home, Ent Credit Union.
- Where is Rocks Family Foundation based?
- Rocks Family Foundation is based in CO.
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