Colorado · Private foundation
The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $156k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $996k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 31 | $156k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $132k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $119k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $110k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $101k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care and Share Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum | $35,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Westside Cares Inc | $30,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Project Angel Heart | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fountain Valley School of Colorado | $25,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Place | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs | $23,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Special Kids-Special Families Inc | $22,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Christian Home For Children Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings 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: El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Gives Foundation · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · The Marson Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · The Nutrition Camp School Foundaton Inc
How this is measured
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About The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation
- How much does The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation give?
- The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $155,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Care and Share Inc ($42k), Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum ($35k), Westside Cares Inc ($31k).
- Does The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El Pomar Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation.
- Where is The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation based?
- The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation is based in CO.
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