Colorado · Private foundation
The William B ORourke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $106k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The William B ORourke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 7 | $106k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $99k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $95k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $76k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $113k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $100k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $132k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $105k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensight Skills Center | $155,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $135,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Audio Information Network of Colora | $121,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Mountain State Congress of Optometry | $53,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Colorado Lions Kidsight Program Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Colorado Center for the Blind | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Seniors' Resource Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Innervision | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Association of Blind Athletes Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The William B ORourke 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The William B ORourke Foundation
- How much does The William B ORourke Foundation give?
- The William B ORourke Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $106,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The William B ORourke Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The William B ORourke Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ensight Skills Center ($155k), Emergency Family Assistance Association ($135k), Audio Information Network of Colora ($121k).
- Does The William B ORourke Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The William B ORourke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The William B ORourke Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
- Where is The William B ORourke Foundation based?
- The William B ORourke Foundation is based in CO.
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