Colorado · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Human Services in Colorado

Imperigo has identified 832 funders that made 12,836 grants totaling $910.4M to 1,037 human services organizations in Colorado, with a median grant of $18K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Human Services Funding in Colorado

Total granted $910.4M
Funders 832
Grants 12,836
Organizations funded 1,037

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Pikes Peak United Way
82 grants to 22 organizations · largest $228K · through 2024 · 32.3% of their giving
$2.6M
27. Gazette Charities
40 grants to 7 organizations · largest $92K · through 2024 · 32.2% of their giving
$2.5M
28. Denver Post Community Foundation
78 grants to 19 organizations · largest $172K · through 2025 · 21.3% of their giving
$2.4M
29. The Summit Foundation
64 grants to 17 organizations · largest $411K · through 2024 · 14.8% of their giving
$2.8M
30. Southwest Neighborhood Housing Corp
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.9M · through 2025 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.9M
31. Earning for Life Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $405K · through 2024 · 83.7% of their giving
$1.7M
32. Barton Institute for Community Action
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.1M · through 2024 · 11.0% of their giving
$3.0M
33. Silver Key Senior Services Foundation
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $337K · through 2023 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.6M
34. National Giving Foundation Inc
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $701K · through 2024 · 19.0% of their giving
$1.5M
35. Woodford Manufacturing Charities Inc
30 grants to 6 organizations · largest $75K · through 2025 · 40.2% of their giving
$1.3M
36. Weld Community Foundation
53 grants to 19 organizations · largest $602K · through 2025 · 14.0% of their giving
$1.8M
37. Colorado Springs Child Nursery Ctr Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $990K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.2M
38. AARP
10 grants to 5 organizations · largest $3.4M · through 2024 · 2.2% of their giving
$9.9M
39. Colorado CASA Inc
13 grants to 3 organizations · largest $212K · through 2024 · 14.6% of their giving
$1.4M
40. The Catholic Foundation No Colorado
46 grants to 9 organizations · largest $624K · through 2024 · 4.9% of their giving
$3.8M
41. Scottish Rite Foundation of Colorado
12 grants to 2 organizations · largest $292K · through 2024 · 15.6% of their giving
$1.1M
42. The Weld Trust
54 grants to 23 organizations · largest $330K · through 2024 · 5.8% of their giving
$3.0M
43. Disabling Barriers
20 grants to 15 organizations · largest $100K · through 2024 · 20.3% of their giving
$849K
44. INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak
52 grants to 20 organizations · largest $90K · through 2024 · 16.7% of their giving
$988K
45. United Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc
29 grants to 9 organizations · largest $81K · through 2024 · 31.5% of their giving
$779K
46. Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
341 grants to 122 organizations · largest $14.2M · through 2024
$39.1M
47. Elevations Foundation Inc
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $649K · through 2024 · 31.5% of their giving
$659K
48. Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $637K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$637K
49. Link a Community Assessment and Resource Center
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $458K · through 2024 · 88.6% of their giving
$583K
50. Christ First Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $542K · through 2023 · 70.2% of their giving
$576K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to human services work in Colorado, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 15 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering human services work, with an address in Colorado. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable human services funding in Colorado, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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