United Way of Larimer County
Fort Collins, CO · EIN 84-6031503. Reported 175 grants totalling $10.0M to 102 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 United Way of Larimer County, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70).
- How spread out its giving is. 102 distinct organizations, with 25% 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. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $26,200. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $75,404; the smallest was $5,897 and the largest $1,434,706. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Larimer County | Fort Collins, CO | $2,506,856 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of Northern Colorado | Fort Collins, CO | $473,743 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Matthews House | Fort Collins, CO | $430,794 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Family Center - La Familia | Fort Collins, CO | $233,394 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Success | Estes Park, CO | $221,866 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Denver Rescue Mission | Denver, CO | $215,425 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado | Loveland, CO | $167,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Poudre School District Foundation Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $164,593 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Larimer County Sheriff's Office Emergency | Fort Collins, CO | $143,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Solidarity and Accompaniment Coalition Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $143,487 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Loveland Youth Gardeners | Loveland, CO | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Den | Denver, CO | $123,123 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cultural Enrichment Center of Fort Collins | Fort Collins, CO | $122,037 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Denver, CO | $117,935 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alianza Norco | Fort Collins, CO | $106,450 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boulder County AIDS Project | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boulder Food Rescue | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Roots Midwife Collective Non Profit | Longmont, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joyful Journeys Community Enrichment | Lochbuie, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Motus Theater | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Refuge | Broomfield, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The@spark | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Homeward Alliance Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $98,550 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Stonier Scholarship Inc | Towson, MD | $95,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cal-Wood Education Center | Jamestown, CO | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Focus Reentry | Boulder, CO | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center | Fort Collins, CO | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| House of Neighborly Service | Loveland, CO | $92,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northern Colorado Clean Cities | Fort Collins, CO | $90,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Comite De Longmont Inc | Longmont, CO | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $88,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North 40 Mountain Alliance Inc | Red Fe Lks, CO | $85,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Junkyard Social Club | Boulder, CO | $85,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teaching Peace | Longmont, CO | $85,232 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Child and Family Advocacy Program | Boulder, CO | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ember Alliance | Fort Collins, CO | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jacob Family Services Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund Inc | Lyons, CO | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mother House Inc | Boulder, CO | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childsafe Colorado Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $83,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Recovery Cafe Longmont | Longmont, CO | $82,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Deserving Dental Org | Broomfield, CO | $81,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dairy Center for the Arts | Boulder, CO | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Disabled Resource Services Inc | Loveland, CO | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Learning Center Inc | Boulder, CO | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Way Forward Inc | Longmont, CO | $75,675 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thompson School District R2-J | Loveland, CO | $73,280 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Estes Park Education Foundation Inc | Estes Park, CO | $68,140 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Estes Park Learning Place Inc | Estes Park, CO | $67,326 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Womens Wilderness Institute | Boulder, CO | $66,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Forward Steps Foundation | Boulder, CO | $62,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feeding Our Community Ourselves Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $59,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Centro Amistad | Boulder, CO | $58,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Womens Foundation of Colorado Inc | Denver, CO | $54,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Food Bank for Larimer County | Loveland, CO | $52,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Boulder Valley | Lafayette, CO | $51,320 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Global Leaders Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unified Workforce | Fort Collins, CO | $48,497 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District | Laporte, CO | $47,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boulder County Arts Alliance Inc | Boulder, CO | $46,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Speech and Reading Center | Fort Collins, CO | $45,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Larimer County Partners Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $45,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Respite Care Inc | Timnath, CO | $45,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Parlando Incorporated | Boulder, CO | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Arc of Larimer County Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $41,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Poudre School District - Lincoln Middle School | Fort Collins, CO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Livermore Fire Protection District | Livermore, CO | $36,570 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thompson Valley Preschool Inc | Loveland, CO | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Glen Haven Area Volunteer Fire Department | Glen Haven, CO | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healing Warriors Program | Fort Collins, CO | $31,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Holistic Homestead | Black Hawk, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department | Bellvue, CO | $27,150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado Clean Energy Cluster | Fort Collins, CO | $26,756 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ensight Skill Center | Fort Collins, CO | $26,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foothills Unitarian Church | Fort Collins, CO | $26,097 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Thompson R2-J Education Foundation | Loveland, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Neighbors Vecinos Unidos | Fort Collins, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Poudre Fire Authority | Fort Collins, CO | $24,972 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Red Feather Lakes Fire Protections | Red Feather Lakes, CO | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Volunteers of America Colorado Branch | Denver, CO | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vindeket | Fort Collins, CO | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lyons Fire Protection District | Lyons, CO | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Queens Legacy Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $16,997 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Servant S Heart Corporation | Fort Collins, CO | $15,457 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crystal Lakes Fire Protection District | Red Feather Lakes, CO | $13,895 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greenpath Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $13,875 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wellington Fire District | Wellington, CO | $12,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Glacier View Fire Protections | Livermore, CO | $12,220 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Genesis Project of Fort Collins | Fort Collins, CO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Collins Community Action Network | Fort Collins, CO | $11,178 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinewood Springs Fire Protection District | Lyons, CO | $11,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dance Express | Fort Collins, CO | $10,457 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Realities Focus Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Red Feather Lakes Community Library | Livermore, CO | $9,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County | Fort Collins, CO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Berthoud Fire Protection District | Berthoud, CO | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unite for Literacy LLC | Loveland, CO | $6,660 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorado State University - Osp | Fort Collins, CO | $5,897 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
35 of 102 (34%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 73 of 102 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 56 | $1,612,862 | $19,228 |
| 2022 | 35 | $931,276 | $18,100 |
| 2023 | 71 | $5,886,934 | $70,500 |
| 2024 | 13 | $1,609,332 | $23,000 |
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
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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
12 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 33 grants totalling $2,584,401 to United Way of Larimer County. That is 23% of the 53 funders we can see giving to it. Those 12 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
8 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.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asante Foundation Inc | Indiana | $2,353,082 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc | Delaware | $108,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Nordson Corporation Foundation | Ohio | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johanna a Favrot Fund | Texas | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Singiser Family Foundation Inc | Colorado | $10,025 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City Club Foundation | Montana | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Otter Cares Foundation | Colorado | $3,887 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chinn Family Foundation | Colorado | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation | Delaware | $1,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $857 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 12.
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.
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.
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 $26,200 -- 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 United Way of Larimer County'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 12 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: 525 W Oak St 101, Fort Collins, CO, 80521.
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