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Broomfield Community Foundation

Broomfield, CO · EIN 84-1246756. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,307,583 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

36organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,307,583granted, 2021-2024
59%of grantees funded again the next year
34%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. 36 distinct organizations, with 34% 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. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $13,500; 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
39 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
42 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$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$440,653432024
Thrive Transformation at WorkWestminster, CO$79,430712024
Denver Scholarship FoundationDenver, CO$51,000112021
School District 12 Education FoundationThornton, CO$46,500332024
Boulder Valley Womens Health Center IncBoulder, CO$43,000332024
Boulder County AIDS ProjectBoulder, CO$36,000332024
Conscious AllianceBroomfield, CO$36,000332024
Rocky Mountain Legal CenterLafayette, CO$35,500332024
Center for People With DisabilitiesBoulder, CO$33,000332024
Dental Aid IncLouisville, CO$31,000332024
F R I E N D S of BroomfieldBroomfield, CO$30,000332023
St Pauls Retirement Homes FoundationSan Diego, CA$30,000112023
Association for Community Living in Boulder CountyLongmont, CO$28,000332024
Brothers Redevelopment IncEdgewater, CO$28,000332024
Colorado Meth Project IncBroomfield, CO$28,000332024
Deserving Dental OrgBroomfield, CO$28,000332024
Colorado Safe Parking InitiativeDenver, CO$27,000222023
Boulder County Rsvp Board IncBoulder, CO$23,500332024
Coal Creek Adult Education CenterLafayette, CO$23,500332024
Intercambio De ComunidadesBoulder, CO$23,000332024
Boulder PrideBoulder, CO$22,000222023
Broomfield Council on the Arts and HumanitiesBroomfield, CO$21,000222024
Audio Information Network of ColoradoLouisville, CO$20,500332024
University of Colorado FoundationDenver, CO$20,000112023
Backstory TheatreBroomfield, CO$16,500222023
Home Builders Foundation of Metropolitan DenverCentennial, CO$13,000222023
Seniors Resource Center IncWheat Ridge, CO$12,000222023
Youth SeenDenver, CO$12,000222023
Broomfield Early Childhood CouncilBroomfield, CO$10,000112024
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
Active Lab LLCBroomfield, CO$7,500112021
Parlando IncorporatedBoulder, CO$6,000112024
Towneplace Suites BoulderbroBroomfield, CO$6,000112021

24 of 36 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
6 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org

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

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

98% 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
$1.3M
California
$30K

Down to the city

Broomfield, CO
$644K
Boulder, CO
$196K
Denver, CO
$110K
Westminster, CO
$79K
Lafayette, CO
$69K
Louisville, CO
$52K

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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 the strongest signal available 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.

Colorado Gives Foundation27 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation19 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsRose Community Foundation12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 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.

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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 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 26 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

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