Colorado · Private foundation
Tappan Easton 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.
- $112k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Tappan Easton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 15 | $112k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $106k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $100k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $110k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $56k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $46k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Descents | $162,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Kempe Foundation | $61,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Colorado Youth Tennis Foundation | $39,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Lone Tree Arts Center Fund | $38,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope Ignites Colorado | $22,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sox Place Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Upton Redevelopment Corporation Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 22% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Descents | $162,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Kempe Foundation | $61,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Colorado Youth Tennis Foundation | $39,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Lone Tree Arts Center Fund | $38,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope Ignites Colorado | $22,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sox Place Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Upton Redevelopment Corporation Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Weston County Library Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Kids in Need of Dentistry | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donorschooseorg | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Gabby Krause Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunlight Children's Services Inc | $4,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Life | $3,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Invest in Kids | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope and Home | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart Housing Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Backpack Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The WILLstrong Foundation Trust | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lotus Network Fka Intl | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Canine Companions for Independence Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $600 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tappan Easton Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Schlessman Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Tappan Easton Foundation
- How much does Tappan Easton Foundation give?
- Tappan Easton Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $111,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tappan Easton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (38%), Crime & Legal (11%), Education (11%).
- Who are Tappan Easton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Descents ($162k), The Kempe Foundation ($61k), Colorado Youth Tennis Foundation ($39k).
- Does Tappan Easton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tappan Easton 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 Tappan Easton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Janus Henderson Foundation.
- Where is Tappan Easton Foundation based?
- Tappan Easton Foundation is based in CO.
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