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The Kosloff Foundation

Edwards, CO · EIN 43-1694519. Reported 44 grants totalling $698,766 to 30 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$698,766granted, 2021-2024
30recipients, as named on its returns
38%of grantees funded again the next year

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. The Kosloff 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $538,266. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
20 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNew York, NY$538,266112024
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$28,000442024
New York PhilharmonicNew York, NY$19,500332023
Vail Valley Salvation ArmyAvon, CO$11,000222024
Bravo VailVail, CO$10,000112024
Habitat for HumanityAtlanta, GU$10,000112021
Vail Health FoundationVail, CO$10,000112024
Binghamton Univ FoundationBinghamton, NY$9,000332023
Phoenix Art MuseumPhoenix, AZ$7,500222024
Eagle Valley Land TrustEdwards, CO$5,800222022
Az MusicfestScottsdale, AZ$5,500222023
Eagle Valley CommunityVail, CO$5,000112021
Eagle Valley Community FoundationVail, CO$5,000112023
Roundup River RanchGypsum, CO$5,000112023
Vail Valley Art GuildAvon, CO$5,000112024
Young Concert ArtistsNew York, NY$4,500332024
Friends of B'shuil HamacharCary, NC$3,600112022
Binghamton University FoundationBinghamton, NY$3,000112024
Hazelden Betty Ford FoundationSt Paul, MN$2,500112024
Brighthouse Future FoundationAvon, CO$2,000222022
Vail JazzVail, CO$2,000112024
Friends of Public RadioWilmington, NC$1,150112023
Friends of Public RadioTempe, AZ$1,150112021
Colorado Holocaust EducatorsDenver, CO$1,000112023
St Mary's Food Bank AlliancePhoenix, AZ$1,000112021
St Mary's Food BankPhoenix, AZ$750112023
Grenadians in ActionBrooklyn, NY$500112021
Vail Valley Unbound IncEdwards, CO$500112023
Public Broadcasting of Colorado IncEnglewood, CO$300112023
Colorado Public RadioCentennial, CO$250112021

9 of 30 (30%) 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 38%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 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.

Arts & Culture
13 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Environment
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Education
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$49,200$1,150
20227$26,100$3,600
202313$35,700$2,500
202411$587,766$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

82% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$575K
Colorado
$63K
Minnesota
$30K
Arizona
$16K
Gu
$10K
North Carolina
$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 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 New York.
  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 The Kosloff Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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 465, Edwards, CO, 81632. 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 43-1694519 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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