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Arvada Economic Development Association

Arvada, CO · EIN 84-1070053. Reported 32 grants totalling $450,698 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

31organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$450,698granted, 2021-2024
0%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,480 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Footer's CateringArvada, CO$50,000112021
Revive Church ColoradoArvada, CO$50,000112023
Singletrack Investment Group LLCArvada, CO$30,000112023
Arvada Chamber of CommerceArvada, CO$20,000222023
Animal Assisted Therapy Programs of ColoradoArvada, CO$15,000112022
Arvada Dental CenterArvada, CO$15,000112024
H-Z ArvadaBoulder, CO$15,000112021
KokoroArvada, CO$15,000112023
Lallier ConstructionArvada, CO$15,000112024
Olde Town Flower ShoppeArvada, CO$15,000112023
Ralston Rd ShopsArvada, CO$15,000112024
SustainabilityArvada, CO$15,000112023
Teocalli CocinaArvada, CO$15,000112022
The Goddard SchoolArvada, CO$12,500112021
Salon RoyaArvada, CO$10,726112021
Apco ElectricArvada, CO$10,000112023
Calm Spirit AccupunctureArvada, CO$10,000112022
Colorado Tap HouseArvada, CO$10,000112022
Front Range RestoreArvada, CO$10,000112023
Hope House of ColoradoArvada, CO$10,000112024
Malara GardensDenver, CO$10,000112021
Mlm PropertiesArvada, CO$10,000112023
Rocky Mountain CommissaryArvada, CO$10,000112023
Smutz Smiles ProfessionalArvada, CO$10,000112024
Lady NomadaArvada, CO$9,492112022
BluegrassArvada, CO$7,500112022
Freedom Street DevelopmentArvada, CO$7,500112022
Mcclaflin Real EstateArvada, CO$7,500112024
Resolute BrewingArvada, CO$7,500112021
Ruder Built ConstructionArvada, CO$7,500112024
Eli Ashby Healing ArtsArvada, CO$5,480112024

1 of 31 (3%) 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
1 org
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20216$105,726$11,613
20228$84,492$10,000
202310$175,000$12,500
20248$85,480$10,000

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

Arvada, CO
$426K
Boulder, CO
$15K
Denver, CO
$10K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Colorado Gives Foundation4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund2 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc2 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
  4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Arvada Economic Development Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5603 Yukon St Unit a, Arvada, CO, 80002.

EIN 84-1070053 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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