Colorado · Private foundation
The Pioneer Fund
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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Pioneer Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 3 | $29k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $74k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $13k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $90k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helmar Skating Fund | $135,000 | 2 | 100% |
| Belize Education Project | $22,200 | 3 | 2% |
| Gentrys Education Center at the Store Front Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Red Road Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 1% |
| BASICS Team Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Professional Skaters Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Safehouse Denver Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Porters Call | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sportswomen of Colorado Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Operation Andrew Group Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Pioneer Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Pioneer Fund
- How much does The Pioneer Fund give?
- The Pioneer Fund reported 4 grants totaling $31,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Pioneer Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (58%), International (21%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Pioneer Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Helmar Skating Fund ($135k), Belize Education Project ($22k), Gentrys Education Center at the Store Front Inc ($11k).
- Does The Pioneer Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pioneer Fund 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 Pioneer Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Pioneer Fund based?
- The Pioneer Fund is based in CO.
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