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Bloedorn Foundation

Ft Morgan, CO · EIN 84-6025296. Reported 101 grants totalling $547,425 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$547,425granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
88%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,610,952assets, 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
19 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
31 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
28 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Ft Morgan School District Re-3Ft Morgan, CO$85,250842024
Rising Up Morgan CountyFt Morgan, CO$65,000442024
ShareFt Morgan, CO$54,000442024
Kids at Their BestFt Morgan, CO$47,500442024
Morgan County Family CenterFt Morgan, CO$42,000442024
Brush School District Re-2Brush, CO$33,2001242024
Break the SilenceFt Morgan, CO$25,000332024
Wiggins School District Re-50Wiggins, CO$21,200842024
Baby Bear HugsYuma, CO$20,000442024
SaraFt Morgan, CO$15,000332024
The Children's CenterFt Morgan, CO$15,000332024
Weldon Valley School District Re-20Weldona, CO$14,800842024
Ne Colorado Health DeptSterling, CO$10,500222024
City of Ft MorganFt Morgan, CO$10,000222024
Ft Morgan Heritage FoundationFt Morgan, CO$10,000442024
Imagination LibraryDenver, CO$10,000222024
Independent Higher EducationDenver, CO$10,000222022
Invest in KidsDenver, CO$10,000112023
Ne Colorado Veteran Suicide AwarenessBrush, CO$10,000112024
Prairie School District Re-11JNew Raymer, CO$6,600742024
Marion Downs CenterDenver, CO$6,000442024
Woodlin School District R-104Woodrow, CO$6,000442024
Boulder County Arts AllianceBoulder, CO$5,000112022
Gene Doty Senior CenterFt Morgan, CO$3,625112022
Mc Interagency Oversight GroupFt Morgan, CO$3,000112023
Mcc FoundationFt Morgan, CO$2,500112022
Mcc Foundation - Center for Arts & CommFt Morgan, CO$2,500112024
Trailhead InstituteFt Morgan, CO$2,500112022
Morgan County School District Re-3Ft Morgan, CO$1,250112021

20 of 29 (69%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 88%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

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

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
$384K
Brush, CO
$43K
Denver, CO
$36K
Wiggins, CO
$21K
Yuma, CO
$20K
Weldona, CO
$15K
Sterling, CO
$10K
New Raymer, CO
$7K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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