· Private foundation
The Blessing 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRAPROCK CENTER FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE | $8,400 |
| BOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| CULTURAL CARAVAN | $7,100 |
| PERMATOURS | $6,600 |
| BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS ART FUND INC | $3,900 |
| WORLD SINGING DAY | $3,000 |
| PROJECT STEP | $1,500 |
| CELLISTS FOR CHANGE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTraprock Center for Peace & Justice Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +34% · 34% of their budget
- BCBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +21%
- TETHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- PPermatoursone grant, 2025 · $7k
- BPBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAone grant, 2025 · $6k · revenue 0%
- CFCELLISTS FOR CHANGEone grant, 2025 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Longmont Concert Band is a nonprofit organization composed of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community. Our goals are to provide quality concert band music to the general public, to provide a fun and invigorating atmosphere…
Charitable organization presenting musical events and educational programs. In 2023-24, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra presented two world premieres and featured numerous works by women composers and composers of color.
Boulder ballet creates engaging dance performances and educational initiatives that enrich human connections through the transformative power of the arts.
Boulder Chamber Orchestra BCO is a non-profit organization committed to providing exceptional chamber music programming education and outreach as well as an outlet for talented local artists in the Boulder community.
To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.
Education in the Jazz Arts for musicians of all ages.
The organization 1 provides an opportunity for community members who have an interest in instrumental music to participate in an organization with others and 2 provides performances for public occasions such as benefits for charitable or…
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
Open Studios is an organization operating in Boulder County, Colorado that serves artists and the broader community by advancing the visual arts through education and events.
Our purpose is to establish an active community within the freedom and culture expressed in authentic and engaging jazz experiences. As a performing arts organization, our goal is to strengthen the community through jazz performances,…
Provide top quality Suzuki Method string instruction to children of all ages, educate parents in their role as a music educator and parent, foster continuing education of faculty associated with Boulder Suzuki Strings, provide financial…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Traprock Center for Peace & Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds African Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Project STEP Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL CARAVAN ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
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 · Emsa Fund Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blessing Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blessing Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Project Step Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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