Delaware · Private foundation
The Fries 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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $703k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Fries Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 4 | $80k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $85k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $2.0M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.6M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Contemporary Art Denver | $3,075,000 | 7 | 22% |
| Wesleyan University | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Selfless Love Foundation Inc | $655,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp | $235,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Dsst Public Schools Foundation | $225,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Global Down Syndrome Foundation | $175,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Seriesfest | $145,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Friends of Kardias Foundation Attn Sergio Lagunes | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Hybrid College | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Stanley British Primary School | $90,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fries 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: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Anschutz Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Fries Foundation
- How much does The Fries Foundation give?
- The Fries Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Fries Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (41%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Fries Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ($3.1M), Wesleyan University ($1.5M), Selfless Love Foundation Inc ($655k).
- Does The Fries Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fries 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 Fries Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is The Fries Foundation based?
- The Fries Foundation is based in DE.
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