Colorado · Private foundation
The Hampshire 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.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Hampshire Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 7 | $300k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $240k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $240k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $294k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $240k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $234k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $210k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $210k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Routt County Foundation for Senior Citiz | $516,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $311,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | $180,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Denver Art Museum | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Art Students League of Denver | $36,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Routt County Foundation for Senior Citiz | $516,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $311,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | $180,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Denver Art Museum | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Art Students League of Denver | $36,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Denver | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bright Beginnings | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Invest in Kids | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Urban Scholars | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Caxton Club | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($587k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hampshire 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Hbb Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Connie Burwell White and William W White Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Hampshire Foundation
- How much does The Hampshire Foundation give?
- The Hampshire Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hampshire Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Environment (27%), Housing & Shelter (24%).
- Who are The Hampshire Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Routt County Foundation for Senior Citiz ($516k), Greenhouse Scholars ($311k), Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc ($180k).
- Does The Hampshire Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hampshire 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 Hampshire Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Hbb Foundation.
- Where is The Hampshire Foundation based?
- The Hampshire Foundation is based in CO.
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