Colorado · Public charity
United Way of Larimer County
We advance our vision of a larimer county where all children and youth have everything they need to thrive by supporting four building blocks of lifelong success: family financial stability, kindergarten readiness, reading at grade level, and high school graduation.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $848,490
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 75
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations United Way of Larimer County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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 | 10 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $5.7M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $891k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.6M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $1.8M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $1.9M | 77% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $666k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $568k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County | $2,671,156 | 6 | 21% |
| The Matthews House | $832,207 | 9 | 5% |
| The Family Centerla Familia | $478,780 | 9 | 5% |
| Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Suc | $338,721 | 5 | 20% |
| Homeward Alliance Inc | $317,450 | 8 | 2% |
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado | $308,921 | 6 | 6% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | $298,901 | 8 | 2% |
| Interfaith Solidarity and Accompaniment Coalition Inc | $285,487 | 4 | 27% |
| Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center | $271,249 | 5 | 4% |
| House of Neighborly Service | $220,291 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 170 grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($832k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Larimer County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Realities for Children Charities · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Larimer County
- How much does United Way of Larimer County give?
- United Way of Larimer County reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,609,332, out of $4,109,862 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 75 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Larimer County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Youth Development (21%), Education (11%).
- Who are United Way of Larimer County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County ($2.7M), The Matthews House ($832k), The Family Centerla Familia ($479k).
- Does United Way of Larimer County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Larimer County?
- 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 United Way of Larimer County based?
- United Way of Larimer County is based in CO.
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