Grantees

Converting Funding into Rippling Impact

In 2025, we awarded

$2M+

45 grants

to projects strengthening Colorado’s communities

alongside

$260K

in Catalyst Grants
(10 Leadership Catalyst & 35 Rural Catalyst)

Our grantmaking touched

35 counties & one tribal nation

across Colorado, elevating the impact of organizations and communities doing transformative work.

We completed

36 site visits

which have been highlighted by grantees as instrumental in building trust and explaining the nuances of grant requests.

To date, Boettcher’s historical philanthropic giving exceeds

$448M

Community Connection Grants

These grants support initiatives and infrastructure projects that foster stronger connections between individuals and organizations.

UNC College of Osteopathic Medicine

This grant investment created a ripple effect by helping catalyze the University of Northern Colorado’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, transforming a critical need into a sustainable pathway for addressing Colorado’s physician shortage. By strengthening rural clinical partnerships and expanding access to medical education, the impact extends far beyond the campus, increasing healthcare access, supporting underserved communities, and shaping future physicians committed to serving where they are needed most.

Food Bank of the Rockies

This grant empowers organizations working across Colorado’s food system in areas from emergency food distribution to long-term community food sovereignty. By expanding capacity, partnerships, and local leadership, the funding helps ensure more Coloradans can access nutritious food today while building resilient, community-driven food systems that reduce hunger and strengthen local economies over time.

Boys & Girls Club of the San Luis Valley Early Childhood Learning Center

The Early Childhood Learning Center is a bold effort to address two critical challenges in the Valley – childcare and substance abuse – through a 17,000-square-foot facility including ten classrooms, a kitchen, and a playground. The Boys & Girls Club of the San Luis Valley is partnering with Adams State and Trinidad State College to strengthen its employment pipeline and will use the space to offer internships and on-site licensure training, along with providing prevention programming in partnership with the Region 18 Opioid Abatement Council and Valley Wide Health.

Colorado State University’s Veterinary Health and Education Complex

This investment funded capital elements of Colorado State University’s Veterinary Health & Education Complex, most directly the Atrium Learning Wall (to be named for Trustee Dr. Tony Frank), a new 20-person classroom, and the south-facing plaza. This will expand education and clinical infrastructure. This investment deepens partnerships with rural clinics, builds hands-on training for future veterinarians, and strengthens animal health, public-health outcomes, and resilient, locally rooted veterinary services across Colorado.

City of Grand Junction – Community
Rec Center

The City of Grand Junction is the largest city in Colorado without a public recreation center or YMCA. This 83,000-sq-ft Community Recreation Center and Burkey Park is an all-ages hub with an aquatic complex, three indoor courts, walking track, fitness and childcare spaces, a senior lounge and physical-therapy center, plus a 250-person events hall that opens onto a pavilion, playground and turf field.

Advance – Aurora Regional Navigation Campus

Anchored in a repurposed hotel, this facility will bring 15+ partners together, offer 200+ medical-respite and short-term housing rooms, and serve 600+ people daily with the long-term goal of reducing Aurora’s homelessness by 50% in five years. This grant will fund facility upgrades including a real-time technology platform for partner coordination and outcome tracking, trauma-informed furnishings (private interview rooms, improved lighting), and flexible meeting and training space to support on-site partners.

LiftUp of Routt County

Serving roughly 2,300 people (≈10% of the county) each year, LiftUp meets basic human needs and promotes self sufficiency. The organization is expanding its facility by approximately 6,000 square feet to boost food-storage and distribution capacity, enlarge the Donation Center and Thrift Store (projected to double current revenue), and add meeting rooms, staff offices, and a conference/wellness room. These upgrades will improve dignity, capacity, and collaboration.

Community Economic Development of Sedgewick County Community Center

Sedgwick County is launching a community-driven initiative to renovate the old Julesburg High School into the county’s first community center. This multi-use facility is designed to bring together youth, families, seniors, nonprofit organizations, schools, and civic leaders under one roof and will house a variety of spaces to meet local needs. This includes a fitness and recreation area, a commercial kitchen, spaces for seniors, a dedicated classroom wing for early childhood care, a gymnasium for sports leagues, and multipurpose rooms to accommodate community events. With changing demographics and community needs, rural towns like Julesburg are creatively repurposing schools and other spaces to invest in their futures.

United Way of Pueblo County (UWPC) – Leadership, Empowerment, and Development (LEAD) Center

After leading a county-wide needs assessment, UWPC is renovating its office building to be the home of the LEAD Center. This facility will support Pueblo County nonprofits through below-market office rentals, shared meeting and training rooms, technical assistance, and ongoing capacity-building opportunities in one centralized location. The organization supports four pillars: Community Resilience, Economic Mobility & Opportunity, Nonprofit Capacity Development, and Youth Success, along with providing Community Investment Grants supporting mental health, housing, and senior services. This nonprofit resource hub will improve the operational sustainability of all partners involved and facilitate deeper collaboration.

Carbondale Clay Center (CCC)

CCC is the region’s only public art center offering clay work, pottery classes, and kilns. The organization is building a new 8,500-square-foot facility which will include adaptive classrooms, sensory-friendly and ADA-compliant studios, a professional gallery three times larger than the current space, and flexible communal gathering areas. These spaces will allow CCC to double its classroom capacity and serve at least 500 additional participants annually. Expanded programming will include bilingual instruction, therapeutic ceramics classes, intergenerational workshops, and an enhanced Artist Residency program with four slots instead of one. The new CCC facility will greatly expand capacity for programming and pivot the organization’s impact to that of a community arts hub with space for events, on-site partners, and galleries featuring work from local artists of all backgrounds.

2025 Grantmaking Reach

Community Connection Grantees

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