Funding search · EIN 510172279 · Denver, CO
Adolph Coors Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 534
- grants reported
- $39.6M
- total given
- 2021–2024
- filing years
- $30,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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2 grants matching “operartions” · $25,000
- $15,000
Full Circle Restorative Justice · Salida, CO · 2024
General operarting grant
- $10,000
Arkansas Valley Pregnancy · La Junta, CO · 2021
General operarting
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Donorstrust7 grants · $6.7M
- Colorado School of Mines Foundation10 grants · $1.6M
- Common Sense Institute6 grants · $1.2M
- Hillsdale College4 grants · $1.0M
- Libertas Institute4 grants · $864,000
- Greenhouse Scholars4 grants · $850,000
- Steamboat Institute3 grants · $850,000
- Step Denver3 grants · $840,000
- Uc Regents4 grants · $834,069
- Illinois Policy Institute4 grants · $830,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 534 grants.
- $2.6M
Donorstrust · Alexandria, VA · 2021
Program specific
- $2.3M
Donorstrust · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Excellence first special project
- $700,000
Donorstrust · Alexandria, VA · 2023
Excellence first education
- $550,000
Step Denver · Denver, CO · 2023
Colorado springs expansion
- $500,000
Futurerise · Denver, CO · 2024
General operating grant
- $500,000
Donorstrust · Aleandria, VA · 2021
Program specific
- $500,000
Western Stock Show Association · Denver, CO · 2021
General operations
- $437,500
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2024
Program specific grant
- $400,000
National Constitution Cenver · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General operating grant
- $365,000
Uc Regents · Davis, CA · 2021
Program specific
- $350,000
University of Arizona Foundation · Tuscon, AZ · 2024
Program specific grant
- $350,000
Illinois Policy Institute · Chicago, IL · 2022
Center for poverty solutions grant
- $325,000
Steamboat Institute · Steamboat Springs, CO · 2022
Campus liberty tour grant
- $300,000
Donorstrust · Alexandria, VA · 2024
General operating grant
- $300,000
Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain · Greenwood Village, CO · 2024
General operation grant
- $300,000
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024
Program specific grant
- $300,000
Common Sense Institute · Greenwood Village, CO · 2023
General operating grant
- $300,000
Crosspurpose · Denver, CO · 2023
Operations and programming
- $300,000
Libertas Institute · Lehi, UT · 2023
Talent pipeline
- $300,000
Steamboat Institute · Steamboat Springs, CO · 2023
Campus liberty tour grant
- $300,000
Common Sense Institute · Greenwood Village, CO · 2022
Expansion grant
- $275,700
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2024
Program specific grant
- $270,000
Step Denver · Denver, CO · 2024
Capital grant
- $260,000
Uc Regents · Davis, CA · 2022
Eye center grant
- $252,600
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2023
Center for constructive alternatives
- $250,000
Academic Consortium for Integrative · Lake Oswego, OR · 2024
Program specific
- $250,000
Colorado Succeeds · Denver, CO · 2024
Program specific grant
- $250,000
Crosspurpose · Denver, CO · 2024
General operating grant
- $250,000
Donorstrust-A4o · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General operating grant
- $250,000
Emergent Order Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Program specific grant
- $250,000
Libertas Institute · Lehi, UT · 2024
General operating grant
- $250,000
Illinois Policy Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
Venture
- $250,000
Join Freeworld · Austin, TX · 2023
Colorado operations grant
- $250,000
National Cowboy and Western · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
Capital project
- $250,000
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Nov 2023 grant - im
- $250,000
Greenhouse Scholars · Boulder, CO · 2022
Young leaders program grant
- $250,000
Join Freeworld · Austin, TX · 2022
Colorado operations grant
- $250,000
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
General operations
- $250,000
Donorstrust · Alexandria, VA · 2021
Program specific
- $250,000
Emergent Order Foundation · Austin, TX · 2021
Program specific
- $250,000
Greenhouse Scholars · Boulder, CO · 2021
General operations
- $250,000
Join Freeworld · San Jose, CA · 2021
Program specific
- $243,100
Thomas Jefferson University · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Program specific
- $236,200
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2022
Center for constructive alternatives
- $236,200
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2021
Program specific
- $225,000
Steamboat Institute · Steamboat Springs, CO · 2024
Program specific grant
- $222,000
Libertas Institute · Lehi, UT · 2021
Program specific
- $220,750
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2023
Herman coors chair endowment
- $215,000
Foundation for Individual Rights · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General operating grant
- $206,500
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2022
Herman coors chair endowment
- $206,500
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2021
Program specific
- $200,000
Bill of Rights Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
General operating grant
- $200,000
Greenhouse Scholars · Boulder, CO · 2023
Young leaders program grant
- $200,000
Hands of the Carpenter · Golden, CO · 2023
Scaling special project
- $200,000
Change Please · Aurora, CO · 2022
Special project grant
- $200,000
Common Sense Institute · Greenwood Village, CO · 2022
Expansion challenge grant
- $200,000
Center for American Liberty · Alexandria, VA · 2021
General operations
- $200,000
Common Sense Policy Roundtable · Greenwood Village, CO · 2021
General operations
- $190,000
Illinois Policy Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024
General operating grant
- $190,000
Pacific Legal Foundation · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General operating grant
- $175,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating grant
- $175,000
Cafe Momentum Denver Corp · Denver, CO · 2024
General operating grant
- $175,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating grant
- $175,000
Cafe Momentum Denver Corp · Denver, CO · 2023
Denver expansion project
- $175,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating grant
- $175,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington Dc, DC · 2021
General operating
- $165,000
Common Sense Institute · Greenwood Village, CO · 2024
Program specific grant
- $150,000
Change Please USA · Aurora, CO · 2024
General operating grant
- $150,000
Greenhouse Scholars · Boulder, CO · 2024
Program specific grant
- $150,000
Hands of the Carpenter · Golden, CO · 2024
Program specific grant
- $150,000
Emergent Order Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
November 2023 grant - venture
- $150,000
Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain · Denver, CO · 2021
Capital grant
- $125,000
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating grant
- $125,000
The Becket Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating grant
- $125,000
The Becket Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating grant
- $125,000
The Becket Fund · Washington Dc, DC · 2021
General operations
- $120,000
Emergent Order Foundation · Austin, TX · 2023
Venture
- $111,100
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2023
Wkc chair endowment grant
- $105,783
Uc Regents · Davis, CA · 2022
Eye center grant
- $104,000
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2022
Wkc chair endowment grant
- $104,000
Colorado School of Mines Foundation · Golden, CO · 2021
Program specific
- $103,286
Uc Regents · Davis, CA · 2021
Program specific
- $100,000
Center for the Rights of Abused · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General operating grant
- $100,000
First Southwest Community Fund · Alamosa, CO · 2024
General operating grant
- $100,000
Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024
General operating grant
- $100,000
Other Side Academy · Denver, CO · 2024
Capital grant
- $100,000
Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je · Bailey, CO · 2023
Wastewater treatment facility
- $100,000
Common Sense Institute · Greenwood Village, CO · 2023
Coors fellowship
- $100,000
Lemonade Day · Houston, TX · 2023
Colorado program launch
- $100,000
Samaritan'S Purse · Boone, NC · 2023
Disaster recovery
- $100,000
Black Canyon Boys and Girls Club · Montrose, CO · 2022
Capital campaign grant
- $100,000
Center for the Rights of the Abused · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General operating grant
- $100,000
Common Sense Institute · Greenwood Village, CO · 2022
Coors fellowship grant
- $100,000
Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022
General operating grant
- $100,000
People United for Privacy · Washington, DC · 2022
Special project grant
- $100,000
Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating grant
- $100,000
Colorado Succeeds · Littleton, CO · 2021
Program specific
- $100,000
Generation Justice · Phoenix, AZ · 2021
General operations
- $100,000
Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center · Colorado Springs, CO · 2021
General operations
- $100,000
Team Rubicon · El Segundo, CA · 2021
General operations
Who else funds this kind of work
Same state
- Medical Center of the Rockies45 grants · $338.4M
- The Colorado Health Foundation2,012 grants · $327.6M
- Christian Community Foundation4,375 grants · $507.9M
Similar purposes
- Community Foundation of the Ozarks1,851 grants · $73.2M
- United Way of San Antonio and Bexar547 grants · $123.9M
- The Eisner Foundation422 grants · $29.9M
Similar grant size
- The Ayco Charitable Foundation15,303 grants · $2.05B
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral16,278 grants · $1.08B
- Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund19,135 grants · $6.79B
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