Colorado · Private foundation
Sorenson Family 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.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $613k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Sorenson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 37 | $90k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $86k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $74k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $66k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $66k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $47k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $57k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $54k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesley College | $47,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Outdoor Leadership School | $33,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Babson College | $27,500 | 7 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $22,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Climate Ride Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $18,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc | $15,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Wild Bear Nature Center | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($199k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sorenson Family 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: Community Foundation Boulder County · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Onion Foundation · Emsa Fund Inc · Lostand Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Sorenson Family Foundation
- How much does Sorenson Family Foundation give?
- Sorenson Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sorenson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Sorenson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wellesley College ($47k), National Outdoor Leadership School ($33k), Babson College ($28k).
- Does Sorenson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sorenson Family 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 Sorenson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Sorenson Family Foundation based?
- Sorenson Family Foundation is based in CO.
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