How much does The Phyllis M Coors Foundation give?

The Phyllis M Coors Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $562,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Phyllis M Coors Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (21%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).

Who are The Phyllis M Coors Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Volunteers of America Inc ($350k), Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Denver ($125k), University of Colorado Foundation ($100k).

Does The Phyllis M Coors Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Phyllis M Coors 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 Phyllis M Coors Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, The Denver Foundation.

Where is The Phyllis M Coors Foundation based?

The Phyllis M Coors Foundation is based in DE.

The Phyllis M Coors Foundation

The Phyllis M Coors Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Phyllis M Coors Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$562k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$742kHuman Services$504kPublic Safety & Disaster$350kArts & Culture$166kEducation$143kYouth Development$120kCivil Rights$99kReligion$80kOther$0

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $52k
$10k–50k31 grants · $460k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC	$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION	$30,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOC INC	$25,000
HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO	$20,000
URBAN PEAK DENVER	$20,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF METROPOLITAN DENVER	$20,000
MOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC	$20,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO	$20,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC	$20,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$15,000
ASCEND PERFORMING ARTS INC	$15,000
LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$15,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC	$15,000
TREELINE PASS	$15,000
YEAR ONE INC	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 50 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+8%

Still filing today

82%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO
8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +56%
FC
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +9%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%

Funded once

AD
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI
one grant, 2017 · $10k
CC
COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
CH
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO
one grant, 2023 · $5k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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Colorado Health Institute

Health

The Colorado Health Foundation

Health

Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health

Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services

Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Seeds - Sports for Education and Ecomonic Development in Senegal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

36/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$871,500Health$597,000Human Services$419,000Arts & Culture$166,000Education$140,500Youth Development$89,500Civil Rights$64,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO52.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Mile High United Way Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Phyllis M Coors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phyllis M Coors Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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