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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “boulder”
Aec TrustWilmington, DE
32 matching grants · $433,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD BOULDER COLORADO — emergency and rescue services in boulder county
Largest: $228,000 to UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER — simons investigator in physics
Largest: $150,000 to BOULDER BACH FESTIVAL — support for boulder bach festival concerts and educational programming (students range from grade school through adults). the funds will be used for programming that can be interch…
Largest: $149,731 to BOULDER HOUSING COALITION — to undertake a series of outreach and training activities that engage early career researchers in energy system decarbonization modeling
Largest: $71,000 to COUNTY OF BOULDER — early childhood mental health cons.
Largest: $1.5M to CITY OF BOULDER — strengthen community health
JewishcoloradoDenver, COCharity · may take applications
21 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $209,052 to BOULDER JCC-Boulder Fire Relive pmt tuition — gen operating supprt
Rose Community FoundationDenver, COCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $68,493 to The Community Foundation Boulder County — the boulder county wildfire fund
The Denver FoundationDenver, COCharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $683,697 · through 2024Largest: $11,100 to BOULDER PRIDE - OUT BOULDER COUNTY — lesbian and gay rights
Largest: $15,000 to BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — operating fund for educational organization
Largest: $10,000 to Boulder Food Rescue — general operating support to redistribute perishable food waste from businesses to charities and agencies that serve hungry, homeless, and at-risk individuals in boulder.
Largest: $60,000 to Boulder County Latina League — to further organization's goals
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →