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Kodiak Foundation

Englewood, CO · EIN 84-3815890. Reported 24 grants totalling $1,711,101 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$1,711,101granted, 2021-2024
20%of grantees funded again the next year
35%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 Kodiak Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 35% 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. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $603,300. 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
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

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
Nueva Esperanza- New Hope Girls IncSarasota, FL$603,300112023
Veterans Community ProjectKansas City, MO$295,000222024
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$281,052222024
Tlc Learning Center IncLongmont, CO$100,000222024
Daddy Bruce Randolph Legacy FoundationDenver, CO$56,317112021
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$50,000112024
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital IncMemphis, TN$50,000112023
Adopt a Family FoundationRcho Santa Fe, CA$25,000112023
Boys & Girls Club of Polk CountyLakeland, FL$25,000112023
Caruso Family CharitiesLakewood, CO$25,000112023
Pathways for Little FeetHouston, TX$25,000112023
Peace River Center for Personal Development IncBartow, FL$25,000112023
Project Hood CommunitiesChicago, IL$25,000112023
Saint Francis House IncBoston, MA$25,000112023
The Epworth FoundationDenver, CO$25,000112023
The Home for Little Wanderers IncBoston, MA$25,000112023
City of HopeDuarte, CA$15,000112024
Embrace the Dream Foundation IncGreenville, SC$13,132112024
Mountain States Childrens Home IncLongmont, CO$12,300222023
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver IncDenver, CO$10,000112022

4 of 20 (20%) 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 8 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 of 20 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
5 orgs
Education
3 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Religion
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20211$56,317$56,317
20222$16,300$8,150
202315$935,352$25,000
20246$703,132$62,500

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

38% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. 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.

Florida
$653K
Missouri
$295K
New York
$281K
Colorado
$229K
North Carolina
$50K
Tennessee
$50K
Massachusetts
$50K
California
$40K

Down to the city

Sarasota, FL
$603K
Kansas City, MO
$295K
Staten Island, NY
$281K
Longmont, CO
$112K
Denver, CO
$91K
Boone, NC
$50K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation8 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 $25,000 -- 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 Florida.
  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 Kodiak Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 9780 Pyramid Court 300, Englewood, CO, 80112.

EIN 84-3815890 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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