Colorado · Private foundation
The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Lee and Bev Kunz 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; $3k 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 | 9 | $67k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $71k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $26k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $102k | 76% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $44k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $84k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $57k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Education Foundation | $130,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Kapi'olani Health Foundation | $32,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Denver Children's Foundation | $27,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ballet Hawaii | $18,150 | 2 | 1% |
| Ho'Ola Na Pua | $12,666 | 3 | 0% |
| Peppers Senior Dog Sanctuary | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Morrison Theater Company | $10,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Jeffco Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Greats Foundation | $7,500 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lee and Bev Kunz 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation
- How much does The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation give?
- The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $66,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (34%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Granite Education Foundation ($130k), Kapi'olani Health Foundation ($33k), The Denver Children's Foundation ($28k).
- Does The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation based?
- The Lee and Bev Kunz Foundation is based in CO.
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