Colorado · Private foundation
Schlessman Foundation Inc
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.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 116
- Grants FY2025
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 169
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $86M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Schlessman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 116 | $6.8M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 112 | $6.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 139 | $5.7M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 169 | $8.5M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 163 | $5.0M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 160 | $3.9M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 153 | $1.9M | 98% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of the Rockies | $3,475,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Colorado College | $2,557,793 | 7 | 0% |
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $2,500,000 | 5 | 30% |
| The Fort Lewis College Foundation | $2,355,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $2,050,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Savio House | $2,010,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Denver Art Museum | $1,600,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium | $1,537,500 | 7 | 6% |
| Kids First Health Care | $1,035,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $1,015,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 202 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 113 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schlessman Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 190 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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Children's Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Schlessman Foundation Inc
- How much does Schlessman Foundation Inc give?
- Schlessman Foundation Inc reported 116 grants totaling $6,838,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 169 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Schlessman Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (23%), Health (10%).
- Who are Schlessman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of the Rockies ($3.5M), The Colorado College ($2.6M), Denver Public Library Friends Foundation ($2.5M).
- Does Schlessman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schlessman Foundation Inc 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 Schlessman Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Schlessman Foundation Inc based?
- Schlessman Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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