Colorado · Private foundation
Saponas Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $78k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $69k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $31,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Saponas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 21 | $69k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $67k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $68k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $63k | 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 FY2024, 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 | $122,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Place | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Springs Rescue Mission | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Inside Out Youth Services | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Trails and Open Space Coalition | $7,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor Lab Rescue | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tessa | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Westside Cares Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $122,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Place | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Springs Rescue Mission | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Inside Out Youth Services | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Trails and Open Space Coalition | $7,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor Lab Rescue | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tessa | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Westside Cares Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Eastern Plains Community Pantry Fou | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| National Mill Dog Rescue | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mercy's Gate | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rock Ledge Ranch Living History | $3,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Calvary United Methodist Church | $2,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Colorado Springs World Affairs Council | $2,750 | 3 | 1% |
| CHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medical Center | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids on Bikes Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Partners in Housing Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Forge Evolution | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saponas 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: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Marson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust · T Rowe Price Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
About Saponas Foundation
- How much does Saponas Foundation give?
- Saponas Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $68,700, out of $78,200 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Saponas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Saponas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Colorado Foundation ($122k), Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity ($27k), The Place ($26k).
- Does Saponas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saponas 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 Saponas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El Pomar Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, Colorado Springs Health Foundation.
- Where is Saponas Foundation based?
- Saponas Foundation is based in CO.
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