Colorado · Private foundation
The Trio 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.
- $136k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Trio Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $136k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $96k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $79k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $78k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $52k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haitian Education and Leadership Program | $67,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Trees Water and People | $24,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $21,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Indiana Women in Need Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Family Outreach Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Siloe Project | $7,176 | 3 | 3% |
| St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Trio 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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The Denver Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · Xcel Energy Foundation · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Trio Foundation
- How much does The Trio Foundation give?
- The Trio Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $135,804 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Trio Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), International (20%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Trio Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Haitian Education and Leadership Program ($67k), Trees Water and People ($25k), Colorado State University Foundation ($22k).
- Does The Trio Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Trio 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 Trio Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is The Trio Foundation based?
- The Trio Foundation is based in CO.
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