Colorado · Private foundation
Standing Pines Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $94k
- Granted FY2023
- 8
- Grants FY2023
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Standing Pines Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community First Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Standing Pines Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $94k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $8,800
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Standing Pines Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 8 | $94k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $82k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $125k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $82k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $70k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerpoint Community Church | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lincoln Hills Cares | $60,000 | 5 | 12% |
| New Life Ministries | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Packs of Hope | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ralston House | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Crosspurpose | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Imagine Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Engineers Without Borders-Usainc | $8,800 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerpoint Community Church | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lincoln Hills Cares | $60,000 | 5 | 12% |
| New Life Ministries | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Packs of Hope | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ralston House | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Crosspurpose | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Imagine Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Engineers Without Borders-Usainc | $8,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Mile High Ministries | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Imagine | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Engineering Ministries International USA | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Miracles Therapeutic Riding Center | $3,000 | 1 | 5% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Standing Pines 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Standing Pines Foundation
- How much does Standing Pines Foundation give?
- Standing Pines Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $93,800 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Standing Pines Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Standing Pines Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Centerpoint Community Church ($150k), Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center ($70k), Lincoln Hills Cares ($60k).
- Does Standing Pines Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Standing Pines Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Standing Pines Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
- Where is Standing Pines Foundation based?
- Standing Pines Foundation is based in CO.
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