How do I find funders for a medical research nonprofit in Colorado?

Start with the funders already giving to medical research in Colorado, currently Vail Clinic Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Vail Health Services Foundation. Then look at who funds the medical research organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Colorado from out of state.

Who is the largest medical research funder in Colorado?

Vail Clinic Inc gives the most to medical research organizations in Colorado, $13M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to medical research in Colorado?

$24M reached 33 medical research organizations in Colorado, from 154 funders. 70% came from funders also based in Colorado.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Colorado · Medical research

Who funds medical research in Colorado

Funding is concentrated: Steadman Philippon Research Institute alone draws 72% of every medical research grant dollar in Colorado. One funder dominates the giving, Vail Clinic Inc, at 55% of the total.

$24M

granted

organizations

70%

from in-state

The short version

154 funders gave $24M to 33 medical research organizations in Colorado across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
70% of that came from funders also based in Colorado; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of medical research in Colorado is Vail Clinic Inc, at $13M.
The medical research organization drawing the most is Steadman Philippon Research Institute, at $17M.

Largest funders of medical research in Colorado

The funders giving the most to medical research organizations in Colorado, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Vail Clinic Inc$13M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$2M 3Vail Health Services Foundation$753k 4Boulder Community Health Foundation$547k 5Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$510k 6Gates Family Foundation$500k 7James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust$500k 8The John Martin Foundation$449k 9Rare Village Foundation$422k 10Silicon Valley Community Foundation$400k

Medical research organizations in Colorado that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Steadman Philippon Research Institute$17M The Morgan Adams Foundation$1M

Cancer League of Colorado Inc$939k

How to find medical research funders in Colorado

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Start with the funders already active in Colorado
The funders giving the most to medical research in Colorado are Vail Clinic Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Vail Health Services Foundation. A funder already writing medical research checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the medical research organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
30% of medical research money in Colorado comes from funders elsewhere, so national medical research funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Colorado.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a medical research nonprofit in Colorado?: Start with the funders already giving to medical research in Colorado, currently Vail Clinic Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Vail Health Services Foundation. Then look at who funds the medical research organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Colorado from out of state.
Who is the largest medical research funder in Colorado?: Vail Clinic Inc gives the most to medical research organizations in Colorado, $13M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to medical research in Colorado?: $24M reached 33 medical research organizations in Colorado, from 154 funders. 70% came from funders also based in Colorado.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.