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Broomfield Community Foundation

Broomfield, CO · EIN 84-1246756. Reported 118 grants totalling $2,169,114 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

54organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$2,169,114granted, 2021-2025
67%of grantees funded again the next year
21%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Broomfield Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $14,000; the smallest was $5,900 and the largest $393,653. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
50 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
54 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Senior Resources of Broomfield IncBroomfield, CO$465,653542025
Almost Home IncBrighton, CO$99,000112025
F R I E N D S of BroomfieldBroomfield, CO$95,000442025
Thrive Transformation at WorkWestminster, CO$79,430712024
School District 12 Education FoundationThornton, CO$78,500442025
Developmental Disabilities CenterLafayette, CO$78,000112025
The RefugeBroomfield, CO$75,000112025
Boulder Valley Womens Health Center IncBoulder, CO$60,500442025
A Precious Child IncWestminster, CO$60,000112025
Denver Scholarship FoundationDenver, CO$51,000112021
Ralston HouseArvada, CO$50,000112025
Rocky Mountain Legal CenterLafayette, CO$48,000442025
Community Food Share IncLouisville, CO$47,331112025
Center for People With DisabilitiesBoulder, CO$47,000442025
Bal Swan Childrens CenterBroomfield, CO$45,000112025
Boulder County AIDS ProjectBoulder, CO$43,500442025
Association for Community Living in Boulder CountyLongmont, CO$41,000442025
Deserving Dental OrgBroomfield, CO$38,000442025
Broomfield Council on the Arts and HumanitiesBroomfield, CO$36,000332025
Conscious AllianceBroomfield, CO$36,000332024
Colorado Meth Project IncBroomfield, CO$35,500442025
Coal Creek Adult Education CenterLafayette, CO$32,500442025
Boulder County Rsvp Board IncBoulder, CO$32,000442025
Dental Aid IncLouisville, CO$31,000332024
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence IncBoulder, CO$30,000112025
St Pauls Retirement Homes FoundationSan Diego, CA$30,000112023
Audio Information Network of ColoradoLouisville, CO$28,000442025
Brothers Redevelopment IncEdgewater, CO$28,000332024
Colorado Safe Parking InitiativeDenver, CO$27,000222023
Sparkhope AutomotiveFederal Hgts, CO$23,500112025
Intercambio De ComunidadesBoulder, CO$23,000332024
Boulder PrideBoulder, CO$22,000222023
University of Colorado FoundationDenver, CO$20,000112023
Broomfield Early Childhood CouncilBroomfield, CO$18,000222025
Parlando IncorporatedBoulder, CO$17,500222025
Project Angel HeartDenver, CO$17,000112025
Backstory TheatreBroomfield, CO$16,500222023
CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties IncWestminster, CO$15,000112025
Rise Against SuicideLafayette, CO$15,000112025
Home Builders Foundation of Metropolitan DenverCentennial, CO$13,000222023
Seniors Resource Center IncWheat Ridge, CO$12,000222023
Youth SeenDenver, CO$12,000222023
Broomfield Rotary FoundationBroomfield, CO$10,000112025
Broomfield High School PerforBroomfield, CO$10,000112022
Community Services of Broomfield IncBroomfield, CO$10,000112023
Sister Carmen Community Center IncLafayette, CO$10,000112023
The Community FoundationBoulder, CO$10,000112022
Impact on EducationLouisville, CO$8,000112025
Active Lab LLCBroomfield, CO$7,500112021
Growe FoundationLouisville, CO$7,000112025
Junior Achievement Rocky MountainGreenwood Vlg, CO$6,100112025
Special Olympics ColoradoAurora, CO$6,100112025
Thrive-Transformation at WorkEnglewood, CO$6,000112025
Towneplace Suites BoulderbroBroomfield, CO$6,000112021

26 of 54 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 5 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 41 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
11 orgs
Housing & Shelter
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$468,153$10,000
202225$233,000$9,000
202327$289,000$9,000
202427$317,430$10,000
202534$861,531$14,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Colorado
$2.1M
California
$30K

Down to the city

Broomfield, CO
$904K
Boulder, CO
$286K
Lafayette, CO
$184K
Westminster, CO
$154K
Denver, CO
$127K
Louisville, CO
$121K

Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one

3 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 9 grants totalling $63,636 to Broomfield Community Foundation. That is 23% of the 13 funders we can see giving to it. Those 3 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.

2 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.

FoundationStateReportedGrantsYearsLast
Frenzel Family Charitable FoundatioPennsylvania$61,000552025
Baker Hughes FoundationTexas$2,400112021
Amazonsmile FoundationWashington$236332023

A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.

Every foundation in the table above files Form 990-PF, which reports every grant it made and asks outright whether it funds only organizations it picks. That answer is what puts it on this list; no other form asks the question. The grants this organization reports making are on Form 990 Schedule I, which only requires listing recipients paid more than $5,000. Two different populations, so the money in and the money out on this page are not two halves of one figure and must not be added or compared.

Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 Gives Foundation44 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation31 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc30 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund29 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc25 shared recipientsAnschutz Family Foundation23 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Related guides

Foundations funding education in ColoradoEvery funder in this group

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Broomfield Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 32 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2040, Broomfield, CO, 80038.

EIN 84-1246756 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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