Grant funders

Gates Family Foundation

Private foundation, Colorado

Also known as GFF

United States
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Given in 2024 $17.2m
Typical grant $25k Middle half $20k to $50k
New grantees in 2024 64% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

64% of 2024 grantees were new to this funder

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

Colorado 676 grants · typical $30k
California 89 grants · typical $20k
Hawaii 62 grants · typical $8,000
Texas 34 grants · typical $12k
Arizona 28 grants · typical $15k
District of Columbia 21 grants · typical $30k
Massachusetts 14 grants · typical $56k
Nevada 10 grants · typical $5,000

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Bicycle Colorado Grant to Bicycle Colorado $75k 31 Dec 2024
Child Guidance Center Inc Grant to Child Guidance Center Inc $10k 31 Dec 2024
The Denver Health and Hospitals Fou Grant to The Denver Health and Hospitals Fou $25k 31 Dec 2024
Nature Conservancy Grant to Nature Conservancy $50k 31 Dec 2024
Foothills Art Center Inc Grant to Foothills Art Center Inc $30k 31 Dec 2024
Exponential Impact Grant to Exponential Impact $25k 31 Dec 2024
Montessori del Mundo Grant to Montessori del Mundo $25k 31 Dec 2024
Kim Equine Pavilion and Education C Grant to Kim Equine Pavilion and Education C $15k 31 Dec 2024
Friends of the Children - Colorado Grant to Friends of the Children - Colorado $25k 31 Dec 2024
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Grant to Ronald McDonald House Charities of $8,000 31 Dec 2024

How to apply

How to apply
Capital grant applicants should use the common grant application available on the foundation's website: Www.gatesfamilyfoundation.org. Please reference our website for more information about our initiated grant making.
Deadlines
Proposal deadlines: March 15 and September 1.
Restrictions
The foundation supports capital projects, which are typically building purchase, construction, expansion, renovation, and/or land acquisition, as well as other forms of initiated grant making for capital, program, operating and other purposes in four priority areas - K-12 education, natural resources, community development, and informed communities. The foundation also makes recyclable commitments of capital in the form of program related investments in support of its objectives in the four priority areas for initiated activity.
Contact
Gates Family Foundation
Address
1390 Lawrence Street 400, Denver, CO 80204
Phone
3037221881

From the funder's IRS Form 990-PF for the year to 31 Dec 2025.

Data: Source: Internal Revenue Service, Form 990-series e-file data. (Public IRS data); Source: Internal Revenue Service, Form 990-series e-file data (Public IRS data)