Colorado · Private foundation
The Bolwell 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.
- $113k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 48
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Bolwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 47 | $104k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $93k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $82k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $111k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $80k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Duke University | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alight | $24,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Good360 | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Gianna's Place Inc | $19,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Global Hunger Project | $15,180 | 5 | 0% |
| Amazon Conservation Team | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bolwell 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: United Jewish Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation · Helle Family Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About The Bolwell Foundation
- How much does The Bolwell Foundation give?
- The Bolwell Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $113,345 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Bolwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (34%), Health (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Bolwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Save The Children Federation Inc ($27k), Duke University ($27k), International Rescue Committee INC ($27k).
- Does The Bolwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bolwell 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 The Bolwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc, The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Bolwell Foundation based?
- The Bolwell Foundation is based in CO.
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