Colorado Rockies Baseball
Denver, CO · EIN 84-1178557. Reported 100 grants totalling $3,699,259 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Colorado Rockies Baseball, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 14% 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.
- How much its list changes. 68% 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Hospital Colorado | Aurora, CO | $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | Denver, CO | $445,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Judis House | Aurora, CO | $315,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Denver Public Schools Foundation | Denver, CO | $285,935 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | Aurora, CO | $123,924 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Community Foundation | Boulder, CO | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Colorado Uplift | Aurora, CO | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dream Center Denver | Denver, CO | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding Colorado | Lafayette, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gold Crown Foundation Inc | Denver, CO | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics Colorado | Aurora, CO | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocate Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| It Takes a Village Inc | Aurora, CO | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver | Denver, CO | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Simmons Foundation for Youth and Change Inc | Denver, CO | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountain Fountain Creations | Fort Collins, CO | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Open Door Ministries | Denver, CO | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Volunteers of America Colorado Branch | Denver, CO | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Amp the Cause | Denver, CO | $51,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Challenge America | Basalt, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Colorado Spgs, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Salt River Pima - Maricopa in | Scottsdale, AZ | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voices for Children Inc | Boulder, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Access Opportunity | Boulder, CO | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crosswalk Fellowship | Enqlewood, CO | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gameday Inc | Castle Rock, CO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope Ignites Colorado | Aurora, CO | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children | Denver, CO | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Peak Denver | Denver, CO | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Colorado Hospital Authority | Denver, CO | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Military Family Inc | Firestone, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Daddy Bruce Randolph Legacy Foundation | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | Virginia Bch, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Players Alliance Inc | Fort Lee, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Den | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Whiz Kids Tutoring Inc | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dry Bones Denver | Denver, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Albuquerque Community Foundation | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado Healing Fund | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Denver Childrens Foundation | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Denver Rescue Mission | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dravet Syndrome Foundation Inc | Cherry Hill, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dream on 3 | Concord, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latinas First Foundation | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
28 of 49 (57%) 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.
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.
- Judis House
support grieving families - Boys and Girls Club of Denver
help underprivileged youth - Denver Public Schools Found
provide support for students - Food Bank of the Rockies
provide food and necessities - Community Foundation Boulder
to provide support for tragedies - Feeding Colorado
to provide food to those in need
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 of 49 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $1,165,000 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $621,259 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $700,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 34 | $1,213,000 | $25,000 |
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
93% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- 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 Colorado Rockies Baseball'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 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 34 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: Coors Field 2001 Blake Street, Denver, CO, 80205.
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