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The Myron Stratton Home

Colorado Springs, CO · EIN 84-0404260. Reported 168 grants totalling $3,744,500 to 122 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$3,744,500granted, 2021-2025
122recipients, as named on its returns
9%of grantees funded again the next year
$382.8Massets, 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. The Myron Stratton Home 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 $25,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
98 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
32 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
9 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
Silver KeyColorado Springs, CO$225,000222023
Family Life ServicesColorado Springs, CO$152,500542025
Pikes Peak Habitat for HumanityColorado Springs, CO$150,000112023
Community of Caring FoundationCripple Creek, CO$125,000222025
DiakoniaColorado Springs, CO$110,000222025
Fostering Hope FoundationColorado Springs, CO$108,000222024
Catholic CharitiesColorado Springs, CO$100,000112024
Cripple Creekvictor School DistrictCripple Creek, CO$100,000112022
Habitat for Humanity Teller CountyWoodland Park, CO$100,000112025
Peak EducationColorado Springs, CO$85,000332025
Atlas Preparatory SchoolColorado Springs, CO$80,000222023
Atlas Prep SchoolColorado Springs, CO$65,000112024
Dream Centers of Colorado SpringsColorado Springs, CO$60,000332025
Hillside ConnectionColorado Springs, CO$60,000552025
Partners in HousingColorado Springs, CO$60,000222023
Homeward Pikes PeakColorado Springs, CO$55,000332025
Cheyenne VillageColorado Springs, CO$50,000222025
Elevation Community Land TrustDenver, CO$50,000112024
Fostering HopeColorado Springs, CO$50,000112022
Mercy's GateColorado Springs, CO$50,000332024
We FortifyColorado Springs, CO$50,000112022
Careers in Construction ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$45,000222025
Home Front Military NetworkColorado Springs, CO$45,000222025
Beautiful RedemptionPalmer Lake, CO$40,000222024
Springs Rescue MissionColorado Springs, CO$40,000222025
The PlaceColorado Springs, CO$40,000222025
Westside CaresColorado Springs, CO$38,000332025
Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative CareColorado Springs, CO$35,000222023
Catholic Charities of Central ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$30,000112021
Community Partnership Family ResourcesWoodland Park, CO$30,000112024
First TeeColorado Springs, CO$30,000222023
Hilltop RanchPalmer Lake, CO$30,000112024
Lutheran Family ServicesDenver, CO$30,000222024
Silver Key Seinor ServicesColorado Springs, CO$30,000112025
Big Brothers Big Sisters of ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$25,000222023
CASA of the Pp RegionColorado Springs, CO$25,000112025
CASA of the Pikes Peak RegionColorado Springs, CO$25,000112022
Colorado Springs Food RescueColorado Springs, CO$25,000112021
Community Partnership Family Resource CenterDivide, CO$25,000112021
Discover Goodwill of ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$25,000112023
Day Break Adult Day ProgramWoodland Park, CO$25,000112022
Food to PowerColorado Springs, CO$25,000112021
Family PromiseColorado Springs, CO$25,000112024
Foundation for Colorado Springs FutureColorado Springs, CO$25,000112023
Greccio Housing UnlimitedColorado Springs, CO$25,000222025
Pikes Peak Real Estate FoundationColorado Springs, CO$25,000112022
Rocky Mtn Health Care ServicesColorado Springs, CO$25,000112025
Solid Rock Comm Develop CorpColorado Springs, CO$25,000112025
The Children's Literacy CenterColorado Springs, CO$25,000222025
Teller Senior CoalitionDivide, CO$25,000222023
Ucfoundation Aka Uccs Aging CenterColorado Springs, CO$25,000112025
Girl Scouts of ColoradoDenver, CO$22,500332024
AmblicabColorado Springs, CO$20,000112021
Ascending to Health Respite CareColorado Springs, CO$20,000112025
Children's Hospital Colorado FoundationAurora, CO$20,000112024
Colorado Springs Pioneers MuseumColorado Springs, CO$20,000222023
Disability Servicesenvida (3 Yrs Grant)Colorado Springs, CO$20,000112024
Energy Resource CenterColorado Springs, CO$20,000112022
Fresh Start CenterColorado Springs, CO$20,000222025
Friends of the Children Colo SpgsColorado Springs, CO$20,000112023
Habitat for Humanity of Teller CountyWoodland Park, CO$20,000112022
Innovations in Aging CollaborativeColorado Springs, CO$20,000112022
Pikes Peak Elder Justice CenterColorado Springs, CO$20,000112025
Pikes Peak Housing NetworkColorado Springs, CO$20,000222025
Raise the FutureDenver, CO$20,000112024
Solid Rock Community DevelopmentColorado Springs, CO$20,000112022
Special Kids Special FamiliesColorado Springs, CO$20,000112023
Tri-Lakes CaresMonument, CO$20,000222024
Uccs Aging CenterColorado Springs, CO$20,000112022
University of Colorado FoundationColorado Springs, CO$20,000222025
Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective atColorado Springs, CO$19,000112023
El Paso Fountain Valley Senior Citizens ProgramFountain, CO$18,000112023
Boys & Girls Club of the Pp RegionColorado Springs, CO$15,000112025
Boys & Girls ClubColorado Springs, CO$15,000112022
Brothers RedevelopmentEdgewater, CO$15,000112022
Children's Advocacy CenterColorado Springs, CO$15,000112024
El Paso Fountain Valley Senior CitizensFountain, CO$15,000112025
Family Promiseinterfaith HospitalityColorado Springs, CO$15,000112021
Forge EvolutionColorado Springs, CO$15,000112021
First Tee of Southern ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$15,000112024
Griffith Centers for ChildrenNorthglen, CO$15,000112022
Ithaka Land 2023-C2-2Colorado Springs, CO$15,000112024
Ithaka LandColorado Springs, CO$15,000112023
Junior Achievement of Southern ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$15,000112024
Mcallister HouseColorado Springs, CO$15,000112021
Mission Medical CenterColorado Springs, CO$15,000112023
Parents ChallengeColorado Springs, CO$15,000112021
Rudy Balker TrustColorado Springs, CO$15,000112023
Special Kidsspecial FamiliesColorado Springs, CO$15,000112021
The Dale House ProjectColorado Springs, CO$15,000112023
Western Museum of MiningColorado Springs, CO$15,000112021
Children's Library CenterColorado Springs, CO$12,500112021
Children's Advocacy Center of the Pikes Peak RegioColorado Springs, CO$10,000112021
Colo Spgs Therapeutic Riding CenterColorado Springs, CO$10,000112023
CosiloveyouColorado Springs, CO$10,000112024
Court Care for Pp RegionColorado Springs, CO$10,000112025
Cs Conservatory FoundationColorado Springs, CO$10,000112021
Centro De La FamiliaColorado Springs, CO$10,000222022
Community Partnership for Child DevColorado Springs, CO$10,000112024
Court Care of Pikes Peak RegionColorado Springs, CO$10,000112022
Dream Centers of ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$10,000112024
Hba CaresColorado Springs, CO$10,000112023
Kidpower of ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$10,000112021
National Alliance on Mental Illness CsColorado Springs, CO$10,000112025
National Alliance of Mental IllnessColorado Springs, CO$10,000112022
Pikes Peak Justice & Pro Bono CtrColorado Springs, CO$10,000112021
Pikes Peak United WayColorado Springs, CO$10,000112021
Porchlight FriendsColorado Springs, CO$10,000112025
Pathway to the Rockies Council Boy ScoutsColorado Springs, CO$10,000112022
Raise the Future (fka Adoptionexchange)Denver, CO$10,000112022
Sleep in Heavenly PeaceTwin Falls, ID$10,000112025
The Salvation Army a California CorporationColorado Springs, CO$10,000112024
Colorado Center for the BlindLittleton, CO$9,000222025
Sunshine Home Share ColoradoDenver, CO$7,500112023
Assistance League of Colo SpgsColorado Springs, CO$5,000112023
Colorado Springs Children's ChoraleColorado Springs, CO$5,000112025
Cs Children's ChoraleColorado Springs, CO$5,000112022
Fountain Valley SeniorsFountain, CO$5,000112025
Hope CosColorado Springs, CO$5,000112025
Junior Achievment of So ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$5,000112022
Range Riders FoundationColorado Springs, CO$5,000112025
Mineral Springs FoundationManitou Springs, CO$2,500112024

34 of 122 (28%) 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 9%, across 4 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 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 97 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
33 grants
Housing & Shelter
15 grants
Youth Development
10 grants
Education
10 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202137$668,000$15,000
202232$642,500$17,500
202332$737,000$15,000
202430$722,500$15,000
202537$974,500$20,000

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.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Myron Stratton Home has 8 of them, worth $112,500. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Disability ServicesenvidaColorado Springs, CO$40,000
Ithaka LandColorado Springs, CO$15,000
Children's Literacy CenterColorado Springs, CO$12,500
The Children's Literacy CenterColorado Springs, CO$12,500
Pikes Peak Housing NetworkColorado Springs, CO$10,000
University of Colorado FoundationColorado Springs, CO$10,000
Girls Scouts of ColoradoDenver, CO$7,500
Centro De La FamiliaColorado Springs, CO$5,000

Where its money goes

100% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Colorado
$3.7M
Idaho
$10K

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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.

Colorado Springs Health Foundation49 shared recipientsPikes Peak Community Foundation47 shared recipientsEl Pomar Foundation41 shared recipientsThe Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation36 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund34 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation29 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Myron Stratton Home'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: 555 Gold Pass Heights, Colorado Springs, CO, 80906. 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 84-0404260 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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