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Bloedorn Foundation

Ft Morgan, CO · EIN 84-6025296. Reported 129 grants totalling $728,925 to 31 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$728,925granted, 2021-2025
31recipients, as named on its returns
89%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,840,638assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bloedorn Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $7,500; the smallest was $200 and the largest $21,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
24 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
38 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
35 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Ft Morgan School District Re-3Ft Morgan, CO$116,2501152025
Rising Up Morgan CountyFt Morgan, CO$85,000552025
ShareFt Morgan, CO$69,000552025
Kids at Their BestFt Morgan, CO$62,500552025
Morgan County Family CenterFt Morgan, CO$52,000552025
Brush School District Re-2Brush, CO$41,5001552025
Break the SilenceFt Morgan, CO$35,000442025
Wiggins School District Re-50Wiggins, CO$26,5001052025
Baby Bear HugsYuma, CO$25,000552025
The Children's CenterFt Morgan, CO$20,000442025
Weldon Valley School District Re-20Weldona, CO$18,5001052025
Ne Colorado Veteran Suicide AwarenessBrush, CO$17,500222025
Ne Colorado Health DeptSterling, CO$15,500332025
Eben Ezer Lutheran Care CenterBrush, CO$15,000112025
Imagination LibraryDenver, CO$15,000332025
SaraFt Morgan, CO$15,000332024
Ft Morgan Heritage FoundationFt Morgan, CO$12,500552025
Morgan County United WayFt Morgan, CO$11,000112025
City of Ft MorganFt Morgan, CO$10,000222024
Independent Higher EducationDenver, CO$10,000222022
Invest in KidsDenver, CO$10,000112023
Prairie School District Re-11JNew Raymer, CO$8,300952025
Marion Downs CenterDenver, CO$7,500552025
Woodlin School District R-104Woodrow, CO$7,500552025
Boulder County Arts AllianceBoulder, CO$5,000112022
Mcc Foundation - Center for Arts & CommFt Morgan, CO$5,000222025
Gene Doty Senior CenterFt Morgan, CO$3,625112022
Mc Interagency Oversight GroupFt Morgan, CO$3,000112023
Mcc FoundationFt Morgan, CO$2,500112022
Trailhead InstituteFt Morgan, CO$2,500112022
Morgan County School District Re-3Ft Morgan, CO$1,250112021

22 of 31 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 89%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 25 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
10 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Crime & Legal
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$113,050$3,000
202226$132,375$3,562
202326$143,500$5,000
202427$158,500$5,000
202528$181,500$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Ft Morgan, CO
$506K
Brush, CO
$74K
Denver, CO
$42K
Wiggins, CO
$26K
Yuma, CO
$25K
Weldona, CO
$18K
Sterling, CO
$16K
New Raymer, CO
$8K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Denver Foundation6 shared recipientsThe Colorado Health Foundation6 shared recipientsAnschutz Family Foundation6 shared recipientsCaring for Colorado Foundation5 shared recipientsCaring for Colorado Centennial Fund5 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Bloedorn Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1385, Ft Morgan, CO, 80701. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 84-6025296 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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