Colorado · Private foundation
Townsend 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.
- $264k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,599
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- 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, 10% of the organizations Townsend Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% 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 | 5 | $264k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $284k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $216k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $87k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $304k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $225k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $256k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $182k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $971,799 | 8 | 0% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $269,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $245,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass | $219,600 | 7 | 1% |
| Institute for Justice | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Seaquist House Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Yacht Club Foundation | $7,666 | 3 | 2% |
| Aspen Art Museum | $6,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $971,799 | 8 | 0% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $269,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $245,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass | $219,600 | 7 | 1% |
| Institute for Justice | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Seaquist House Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Yacht Club Foundation | $7,666 | 3 | 2% |
| Aspen Art Museum | $6,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Les Dames D'Aspen LTD | $4,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Kingsport Homeless Ministry Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Peters Prairie School Community Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| One Family Illinois | $1,667 | 1 | 0% |
| Families Against Mandatory Minimums | $1,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $1,172 | 3 | 0% |
| Chi Omega Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Maritime Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Moving Picture Institute | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $760 | 2 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Townsend 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Townsend Family Foundation
- How much does Townsend Family Foundation give?
- Townsend Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $264,199 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Townsend Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (28%), Public Benefit (12%).
- Who are Townsend Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($972k), The Joffrey Ballet ($270k), Cato Institute ($245k).
- Does Townsend Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Townsend 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 Townsend Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Townsend Family Foundation based?
- Townsend Family Foundation is based in CO.
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