Colorado · Private foundation
Yale Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,322
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $91k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Yale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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 | 14 | $37k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $14k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $23k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $27k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $33k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $65,050 | 6 | 1% |
| Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Denver | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado | $5,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Hospice of Metro Denver Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Down Syndrome Foundation | $4,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roundup River Ranch | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $65,050 | 6 | 1% |
| Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Denver | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado | $5,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Hospice of Metro Denver Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Down Syndrome Foundation | $4,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roundup River Ranch | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Transplant Foundation Inc | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Im Education Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Jewish Day School | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $220 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $125 | 1 | 0% |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Yale 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 · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · Cars for Charity Inc · The Colorado Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Yale Foundation
- How much does Yale Foundation give?
- Yale Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $36,967 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Yale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Religion (28%), Health (9%).
- Who are Yale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Public Library Friends Foundation ($65k), Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc ($10k), University of Denver ($10k).
- Does Yale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yale Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Yale Foundation based?
- Yale Foundation is based in CO.
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