Colorado · Private foundation
The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel 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.
- $325k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 13 | $325k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $300k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $275k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $210k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $252k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $227k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Retirement and Care Center | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| White Pony Express | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Monument Crisis Center | $102,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $97,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Homes Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Loaves and Fishes | $90,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Open Heart Kitchen of Livermore Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| La Casa de las Madres | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Opportunity Junction Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Retirement and Care Center | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| White Pony Express | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Monument Crisis Center | $102,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $97,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Homes Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Loaves and Fishes | $90,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Open Heart Kitchen of Livermore Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| La Casa de las Madres | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Opportunity Junction Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California | $45,000 | 1 | 2% |
| District Council of Contra Costa County Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Plumas Crisis Intervention and Resource Center | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Students Rising Above | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grateful Gatherings | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Heroic Gardens | $30,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Shelter Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Diocese of Oakland Ca Department of Education | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Russian Riverkeeper | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($436k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation
- How much does The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation give?
- The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $325,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Food & Nutrition (36%), Health (7%).
- Who are The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mercy Retirement and Care Center ($145k), White Pony Express ($110k), Monument Crisis Center ($103k).
- Does The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel 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 Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Albertsons Companies Foundation, Lowell Berry Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation based?
- The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation is based in CO.
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