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Pueblo Day Nursery

Pueblo, CO · EIN 84-0455260. Reported 50 grants totalling $251,908 to 30 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$251,908granted, 2021-2025
30recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,201,889assets, 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. Pueblo Day Nursery 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 $3,000 and $6,500; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $12,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
23 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 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
PosadaPueblo, CO$25,500442025
CASA of PuebloPueblo, CO$23,913442025
East Side Child Care CenterPueblo, CO$19,025332025
Boys and Girls Club of PuebloPueblo, CO$16,500332023
Pueblo Symphony AssociatinPueblo, CO$16,500332023
Sangre De Cristo Arts and ConferencPueblo, CO$14,500332023
Sangre De Cristo Arts & ConferencePueblo, CO$12,500112025
Pueblo Psymphony OrchastraPueblo, CO$11,500112025
Rocky Mountain Childrens Law CenterDenver, CO$11,500222022
Pueblo Zoological SocietyPueblo, CO$11,120222025
Pueblo Family YMCAPueblo, CO$10,500222022
Pueblo Child Advocacy CenterPueblo, CO$8,700222025
Boys and Girls Clubs of PuebloPueblo, CO$6,500112025
Assistance League of PuebloPueblo, CO$5,000112023
Catholic Charities of So ColoPueblo, CO$5,000112025
Early Learning VenturesPueblo, CO$5,000222023
Nature & Wildlife DiscoveryPueblo, CO$5,000112023
Nature & Wildlife Discovery CenterPueblo, CO$5,000112025
YMCA of PuebloPueblo, CO$5,000112025
Care & Share Food BankPueblo, CO$4,500112021
Executive Partnering to ChildrenDenver, CO$4,050112021
Junior League of PuebloPueblo, CO$4,000222025
A Caring Pregnancy CenterPueblo, CO$3,000112023
Catholic CharitiesPueblo, CO$3,000112021
Catholic Charities of PuebloPueblo, CO$3,000112023
Sangre De Cristo Community CarePueblo, CO$3,000112025
Junior AchievementPueblo, CO$2,700112023
Care & SharePueblo, CO$2,500112023
Pueblo City-County Library DistrictPueblo, CO$2,500112021
Pueblo Heritage MuseumPueblo, CO$1,400112023

12 of 30 (40%) 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 58%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 29 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
7 grants
Crime & Legal
6 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$58,233$4,419
20229$49,288$6,500
202314$49,987$3,000
202513$94,400$6,500

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

Pueblo, CO
$236K
Denver, CO
$16K

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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.

Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund11 shared recipientsRobert Hoag Rawlings Foundation10 shared recipientsSouthern Colorado Community Foundat9 shared recipientsEl Pomar Foundation8 shared recipientsXcel Energy Foundation7 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation7 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 Pueblo Day Nursery'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: C/O Janice Mehle 2629 Ventana Cir E, Pueblo, CO, 81005. 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 84-0455260 · 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.

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