Morgridge Family Foundation

• Morgridge Family Foundation's main focus is education, alongside conservation, health and wellness, arts and culture, and public and societal benefit, so applicants should check their work fits one of these themes.
• Its geographic priority is the United States, Colorado, Florida and Montana.
• Most grants are modest: half of its 571 grants across its filings were $5,500 or less, with the typical range running from $410 to $200,000, so a request in that band is realistic, though a small number of grants have reached as high as $2,500,000.
• Two named programmes have set figures: the Student Support Foundation grant is $4,000, and the Dream Big Grant offers up to $25,000, open to SSF schools pitching a special project after ten years of operation.
• Application method varies by programme, and in its latest filing 85% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had already funded before, so this looks like a relationship-led funder where applying through the correct programme route and building an ongoing connection may matter as much as a single pitch.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Shedd Aquarium Society · Dive Deeper Campaign and to fund educational spaces defined through the Centennial Commitment, inclusive of capital and constructions. Education spaces will include a new Learning Commons, Aquatic Education Wing and Marine Munchroom (student lunchroom), and programmatic areas within the aquarium's Main Foyer
  $2,500,0002024 tax year
• Mindspark Learning · support the mission and work of the organization
  $1,500,0002024 tax year
• Colorado State University Foundation · support the programming and development of the CSU Spur Campus
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Mindspark Learning · General & Unrestricted
  $500,4622024 tax year
• Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation · Classroom to Career Hub Capital Initiative and the Morgridge Peer Mentoring Program
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Reach University · support the creation and expansion of the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Place of Hope · Place of Hope Stuart Campus - Morgridge Family Outreach Center
  $500,0002024 tax year
• St Vrain Valley School District · support the expansion of the Innovation Center and to provide funding for the programs within the Center
  $400,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.