· Private foundation
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sterling Ranch Community Authority | $50,000 |
| Arkansas Headwaters State Park | $10,000 |
| Greenway Foundation | $5,000 |
| Friends of Castlewood Canyon State | $1,000 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% 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.
26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGThe Greenway Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $182k · revenue -66%
- COCITY OF DENVER COLORADO5× · 2019–2024 · $101k
- SRSterling Ranch Community Authority2× · 2021–2025 · $52k
Funded once
- CPColorado Parks Wildlifeone grant, 2022 · $27k
- SOState of Colorado Veteransone grant, 2022 · $19k
- DBDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INCone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +14%
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.
Protection and preservation of the Marolt Park and open space, for community passive use and enjoyment. Protection and preservation of the Marolt Park and open space riparian zone for wildlife habitat. In 2024 we educated and informed the…
A private, non-profit organization working with communities to plant trees and improve parks for a healthy, resilient future.
The mission of the organization is to preserve and enhance the character and safety of Washington Park Denver Colorado through advocacy education and investment.
Friends of the Palo Alto Parks works with the city of Palo Alto, private groups, other nonprofits, and citizen organizations to preserve, maintain, and beautify Palo Alto's parks and open spaces.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Enhance the village park system
Support operations, volunteers, public education, and capital improvements to Pinnacle Peak Park. Pinnacle Peak Park provides fitness, education, and recreation opportunities for over 250,000 visitors each year.
To support and advocate for Cheyenne Mountain State Park. We serve to protect, enhance and preserve for all time the natural state and spectacular beauty of the park. We work in partnership with the park staff to promote recreational and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 60 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 The Greenway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF COLORADO STATE PARKS ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Staunton State Park ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASTLEWOOD CANYON STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds Denver Park Trust ↗
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: The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Colorado Parks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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