Colorado · Private foundation
The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $215k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 108
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 | 39 | $210k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $373k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $548k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $441k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $436k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $491k | 49% |
| FY2019 | 107 | $404k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $305k | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Science Center Inc | $247,725 | 6 | 1% |
| Clarkson University | $119,980 | 7 | 0% |
| Society of Women Engineers | $89,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Portland Public Schools | $83,700 | 5 | 1% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $73,300 | 4 | n/a |
| St Louis Science Center Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Society of Black Engineers | $43,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $41,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Tuskegee University | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 230 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 181 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc
- How much does The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc give?
- The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc reported 49 grants totaling $215,425 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 108 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (18%), Science & Tech (14%).
- Who are The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Connecticut Science Center Inc ($248k), Clarkson University ($120k), Society of Women Engineers ($90k).
- Does The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc based?
- The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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