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The Kosloff Foundation

Edwards, CO · EIN 43-1694519. Reported 44 grants totalling $698,766 to 30 organizations 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
30organizations funded
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. 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
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. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
13 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Environment
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 82% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

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 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 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). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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

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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