The Daniels Fund focuses on supporting highly effective nonprofit organizations with a demonstrated ability to achieve significant results in their communities. We provide grants for specific programs or projects, general operating support, or capital campaigns.

Colorado Front Range and Utah

In the Colorado Front Range, we provide grants in all eight funding areas without region-specific refinement:

• Aging

• Amateur Sports

• Disabilities

• Drug & Alcohol Addiction

• Early Childhood Education

• Homeless & Disadvantaged

• K-12 Education Reform

• Youth Development

Colorado Outstate, Utah, and Wyoming

While we are open to considering requests in all eight funding areas for Colorado Outstate and Wyoming, our grantmaking approach emphasizes the following priorities:

• Youth programs, especially those that focus on career and technical education, and entrepreneurship

• Facilities that accommodate and encourage community gatherings (such as senior centers, youth centers, and community sports complexes)

• Proven programs that deliver prevention education and/or treatment for drug and alcohol addiction

• Collaborative initiatives/partnerships working to achieve community-wide results

• Programs that have regional impact, address community challenges at the systemic level, and/or generate strong local support from the community

We also look for:

• Alignment — The proposed project or program is strongly aligned with our funding areas and priorities.

• Viability — Sufficient local and other financial support exists to ensure the project or program will be implemented and continue after the grant period. Our goal is to help excellent nonprofits achieve a high level of effectiveness and impact, not to sustain any individual nonprofit indefinitely. A grant award should not be perceived as an indication of future or recurring funding.

• Capacity — Effective leadership, strong financial health, and appropriate knowledge and resources exist to effectively implement programs and services.

• Impact — The program or project will have a significant impact in its community. Grant applications should demonstrate strategic high impact and show a clear evaluation plan with specific measurable results that will be reported at the end of the grant period.

• Performance — The program or project is evidence-based, studied, and/or has proven to be effective.