Colorado · Nonprofit
MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION
MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,858,202 to it, the largest being DR MARY BATES TRUST FUND ($2,858,202). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arvada Economic Development Associationlocal
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2.5M → $110k.
From the IRS filings of MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Arvada Economic Development AssociationlocalCO · funds 62 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J&A Racing Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlette & William J Coleman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abe & Rae Weingarten Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gardinor-Prunaret Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION?
- MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,858,202 to it, the largest being DR MARY BATES TRUST FUND ($2,858,202). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,858,202 in grants to MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION?
- DR MARY BATES TRUST FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,858,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY ELIZABETH BATES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing