Colorado · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Recreation & Sports in Colorado

Imperigo has identified 421 funders that made 3,898 grants totaling $1.7B to 379 recreation & sports organizations in Colorado, with a median grant of $19K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Recreation & Sports Funding in Colorado

Total granted $1.7B
Funders 421
Grants 3,898
Organizations funded 379

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Usaging
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $703K · through 2024 · 2.0% of their giving
$1.4M
27. Canvas Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $57K · through 2024 · 33.0% of their giving
$132K
28. United States Team Handball Foundation
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $33K · through 2023 · 62.3% of their giving
$130K
29. Aspen Community Foundation
36 grants to 7 organizations · largest $233K · through 2024 · 1.9% of their giving
$1.3M
30. Bitcoin Gives Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2020 · 15.2% of their giving
$150K
31. Tenth Mountain Endowment Fund Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $33K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$110K
32. The Western Stock Show Association Scholarship Trust
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $67K · through 2025 · 100.0% of their giving
$102K
33. Used Car Dealers of Colorado Charity Fund Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $102K · through 2023 · 19.5% of their giving
$102K
34. INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak
17 grants to 4 organizations · largest $46K · through 2024 · 5.7% of their giving
$335K
35. Team Evergreen Bicycle Club
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $24K · through 2020 · 29.2% of their giving
$90K
36. USA Ultimate Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $53K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$89K
37. Colorado Knights of Columbus Charities Fund Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $36K · through 2022 · 13.9% of their giving
$113K
38. Rose Community Foundation
32 grants to 20 organizations · largest $233K · through 2024 · 1.1% of their giving
$1.3M
39. International Association of Lions 3602
8 grants to 6 organizations · largest $25K · through 2024 · 13.3% of their giving
$96K
40. Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc
27 grants to 13 organizations · largest $101K · through 2025 · 1.9% of their giving
$607K
41. Green Valley Ranch Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $40K · through 2024 · 15.9% of their giving
$70K
42. JEWISHColorado
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $404K · through 2023 · 1.7% of their giving
$614K
43. Volunteers Inspiring & Encouraging Positive Attitude Resilience & Ser
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $60K · through 2024 · 10.6% of their giving
$96K
44. Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley
11 grants to 6 organizations · largest $50K · through 2024 · 4.4% of their giving
$231K
45. Denver Post Community Foundation
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $75K · through 2025 · 3.0% of their giving
$335K
46. Empowered Wealth Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $38K · through 2022 · 50.0% of their giving
$48K
47. Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $55K · through 2025 · 5.7% of their giving
$150K
48. The Philanthropy Roundtable
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2024 · 8.0% of their giving
$100K
49. Denver Broncos Foundation
10 grants to 7 organizations · largest $68K · through 2024 · 2.4% of their giving
$273K
50. The New Horizons Foundation Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $751K · through 2023
$762K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to recreation & sports 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. 14 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 recreation & sports 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 recreation & sports funding in Colorado, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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