Delaware · Private foundation
The Ron and Kathy Colby Family 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.
- $149k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 38 | $149k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $133k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $149k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $120k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $112k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Bay Community Charitable Foundation | $75,000 | 6 | 12% |
| St Matthews House Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest | $31,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Pacer Center Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Solid Ground | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| East Side Neighborhood Services Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Helping Paws Inc | $26,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Our Lady of Peace | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ron and Kathy Colby Family 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Minnesota Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation
- How much does The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation give?
- The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $148,720 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Health (24%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: West Bay Community Charitable Foundation ($75k), St Matthews House Inc ($60k), Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc ($58k).
- Does The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ron and Kathy Colby Family 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 Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation based?
- The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation is based in DE.
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