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Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation

Colorado Springs, CO · EIN 84-0488554. Reported 55 grants totalling $760,000 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$760,000granted, 2021-2024
31organizations funded
46%of grantees funded again the next year
$9,691,442assets, 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. Colorado Springs Osteopathic 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 $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
39 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 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
KidpowerColorado Springs, CO$100,000442024
Safe PassageColorado Springs, CO$64,000442024
CASA of the Pikes Peak Region IncColorado Springs, CO$55,000332024
Special Kids Special FamiliesColorado Springs, CO$45,000332024
Fostering HopeColorado Springs, CO$41,000332024
Dream CentersColorado Springs, CO$40,000222022
Status Code 4 IncColorado Springs, CO$40,000222023
Community Partnership for Child DevelopmentColorado Springs, CO$35,000222024
Inside Out Youth ServicesColorado Springs, CO$28,000222024
Children's HospitalColorado Springs, CO$25,000222022
NAMI - CsColorado Springs, CO$22,500222023
Mt Carmel Veterans Service CenterColorado Springs, CO$20,000112021
NAMI - Colorado SpringsColorado Springs, CO$20,000112024
Springs Recovery ConnectionColorado Springs, CO$20,000112021
TessaColorado Springs, CO$20,000112023
Tessa of Colorado SpringsColorado Springs, CO$20,000112021
The PlaceColorado Springs, CO$20,000112023
The Place Formerly Urban PeakColorado Springs, CO$20,000112021
Teller Senior CoalitionDivide, CO$19,500332024
Atlas Preparatory SchoolColorado Springs, CO$15,000112022
Community Partnership Family Resource CenterWoodland Park, CO$15,000112024
Daybreak - An Adult Day ProgramWoodland Park, CO$15,000222022
Early Connections Learning CentersColorado Springs, CO$10,000112023
Friends of the ChildrenColorado Springs, CO$10,000112022
Silver Key Senior ServicesColorado Springs, CO$10,000112022
Westside CaresColorado Springs, CO$10,000112023
Angels of America's FallenColorado Springs, CO$5,000112021
Mindfulness & Positivity ProjectColorado Springs, CO$5,000112023
Rocky Mountain Women's Film InstituteColorado Springs, CO$5,000112022
Gazette Charities Empty Stocking FundColorado Springs, CO$4,000442024
Care & Share Food BankColorado Springs, CO$1,000112024

14 of 31 (45%) 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 46%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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.

Plus 43 grants to individuals totalling $394,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 44 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
13 grants
Crime & Legal
7 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$195,000$15,000
202215$202,000$10,000
202313$181,000$12,500
202412$182,000$16,500

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

Colorado Springs, CO
$710K
Woodland Park, CO
$30K
Divide, CO
$20K

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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.

Colorado Springs Health Foundation25 shared recipientsPikes Peak Community Foundation22 shared recipientsEl Pomar Foundation22 shared recipientsThe Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation18 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. 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 Colorado Springs Osteopathic 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 49577, Colorado Springs, CO, 80949. 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 84-0488554 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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