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Weld Community Foundation
The WELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION promotes philanthropy to build resources, develops partnerships, and provides leadership that will be of lasting benefit to our communities.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $727,041
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $68M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Weld Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 82 | $3.8M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $3.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $2.2M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $1.6M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $818k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $1.0M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $433k | 37% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $556k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greeley Creative District | $1,430,991 | 2 | 88% |
| The Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County Inc | $936,637 | 6 | 14% |
| Weld Legacy Foundation | $849,477 | 8 | 12% |
| A Woman's Place Incorporated | $804,929 | 7 | 14% |
| United Way of Weld County Inc | $609,204 | 8 | 6% |
| High Plains Housing Development Co | $522,428 | 2 | 26% |
| University of Northern Colorado Foundation | $433,696 | 8 | 1% |
| The Western Stock Show Association | $400,000 | 1 | 1% |
| McPherson College | $360,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver | $358,794 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 132 grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Weld Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 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: The Weld Trust · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · United Way of Weld County Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Weld Legacy Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
How this is measured
About Weld Community Foundation
- How much does Weld Community Foundation give?
- Weld Community Foundation reported 85 itemized grants totaling $3,822,258, out of $4,494,416 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Weld Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Human Services (15%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Weld Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greeley Creative District ($1.4M), The Boys and Girls Clubs of Weld County Inc ($937k), Weld Legacy Foundation ($849k).
- Does Weld Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weld Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Weld Trust, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, United Way of Weld County Inc.
- Where is Weld Community Foundation based?
- Weld Community Foundation is based in CO.
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