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Rendezvous Foundation Inc

Denver, CO · EIN 75-3023803. Reported 34 grants totalling $268,575 to 18 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$268,575granted, 2020-2024
18organizations funded
56%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,652,101assets, 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. Rendezvous Foundation Inc 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 $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
Fraser Valley Elementary Pac IncFraser, CO$90,075442024
Middle Park Medical FoundationKremmling, CO$75,000112024
Grand FoundationFraser, CO$38,000442024
Colorado Headwaters Land TrustGranby, CO$12,500332023
National Sports Center for the DisabledWinter Park, CO$10,000332023
Shining Stars FoundationTabernash, CO$10,000442024
Volunteers for Outdoor ColoradoDenver, CO$8,500222024
Grand County Historical AssociationHot Sulphur Springs, CO$5,000332024
Little Sprouts Learning CenterColorado Springs, CO$5,000112023
East Grand Fire District #4Winer Park, CO$2,500112024
Grand County EmsGranby, CO$2,500112024
Kempe FoundationAurora, CO$2,500112023
Cozens Ranch MuseumGranby, CO$2,000112023
Northwest Rocky Mountain CASA IncSteamboat Springs, CO$1,500112020
Grand County Library FoundationGranby, CO$1,000112021
Middle Park High School LibraryGranby, CO$1,000112024
Mountain Family CenterGrandby, CO$1,000112022
Young Life CampFraser, CO$500112023

7 of 18 (39%) 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 56%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Recreation & Sports
9 grants
Education
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Crime & Legal
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20204$31,500$2,500
20217$22,000$3,000
20223$43,000$2,000
202311$62,575$2,500
20249$109,500$3,000

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

Fraser, CO
$129K
Kremmling, CO
$75K
Grandby, CO
$11K
Winter Park, CO
$10K
Tabernash, CO
$10K
Granby, CO
$9K
Denver, CO
$8K
Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
$5K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Rendezvous Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5291 E Yale Ave, Denver, CO, 80222. 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 75-3023803 · 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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