Colorado · Private foundation
The Galena Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,025,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Galena Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k 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 | 22 | $5.3M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $4.9M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $6.0M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $5.7M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $4.5M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $9.5M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $5.7M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $4.7M | 28% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County | $10,000,000 | 9 | 58% |
| Denver Academy Inc | $8,089,614 | 9 | 27% |
| Craig Hospital | $8,014,812 | 9 | 1% |
| Judi's House Inc | $6,172,254 | 8 | 36% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $6,050,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $1,055,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Aspire Scholarship | $950,000 | 9 | 94% |
| Seeds of Hope | $780,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Tall Tales Ranch | $505,000 | 5 | 26% |
| About Face Foundation | $460,000 | 8 | 53% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Galena Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Jk Mullen Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Galena Foundation
- How much does The Galena Foundation give?
- The Galena Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $6,305,421 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Galena Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (28%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are The Galena Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County ($10M), Denver Academy Inc ($8.1M), Craig Hospital ($8.0M).
- Does The Galena Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Galena Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Galena Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Anschutz Foundation.
- Where is The Galena Foundation based?
- The Galena Foundation is based in CO.
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