Colorado · Private foundation
Starting Line 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.
- $279k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Starting Line Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 20 | $254k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $210k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $140k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $130k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $167k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $240k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $123k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $35k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact on Education Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Boulder Community Health Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Food Share Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $75,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Endeavor Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/A the Endeavor Initiative Inc) | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child and Family Advocacy Program | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cal-Wood Education Center | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($393k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Starting Line Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Colorado Gives Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · AEC Trust · The Denver Foundation · L & N Andreas Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Wolf Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
About Starting Line Foundation
- How much does Starting Line Foundation give?
- Starting Line Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $279,299 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Starting Line Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Philanthropy (30%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Starting Line Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Impact on Education Inc ($170k), Boulder Community Health Foundation ($100k), Community Food Share Inc ($85k).
- Does Starting Line Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Starting Line 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 Starting Line Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation.
- Where is Starting Line Foundation based?
- Starting Line Foundation is based in CO.
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