Colorado · Public charity
Salazar Family Foundation
Grants to specified charities
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of Salazar Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Denver Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Salazar Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 2 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $300k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $370k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $185k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $225k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $254k | 0% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escuela de Guadalupe Elementary School | $944,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Mi Casa Resource Center | $510,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Warren Village Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Adams State University Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Colorado Academy | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Salazar Family Foundation
- How much does Salazar Family Foundation give?
- Salazar Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,250,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Salazar Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (83%), Education (10%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are Salazar Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Escuela de Guadalupe Elementary School ($944k), Mi Casa Resource Center ($510k), Warren Village Inc ($375k).
- Does Salazar Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Salazar Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Mile High United Way Inc.
- Where is Salazar Family Foundation based?
- Salazar Family Foundation is based in CO.
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