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Form 990-PF for tax year 2025

Filed by GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$33,859,013
Total expenses
$40,998,255
Contributions and grants received
$396,400
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$36,290,172
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$634,588,852

Listed in Part VIII

  • Dane Harbaugh

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Lauren Davis

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Wesley Brown

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Richard G Kiely

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Virginia C Bayless

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Rosemary Rodriguez

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Ernest House

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Thomas A Gougeon

    PRESIDENT, S

    Total calculated
    $425,983
    Compensation
    $382,559
    Benefit plans
    $40,299
    Expense account
    $3,125
    Hours/week
    40
  • Leslie Sabin

    VP IMPACT IN

    Total calculated
    $279,514
    Compensation
    $239,500
    Benefit plans
    $38,514
    Expense account
    $1,500
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$36,321,327
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$36,321,327
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

  • UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION

    $20,000,000

    DENVER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

    $2,000,000

    CANAAN, NH

    ENDOWMENT

  • LYRA

    $550,000

    DENVER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • ROOTED

    $400,000

    DENVER, CO

    OPERATING

  • ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

    $383,333

    DENVER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND

    $300,000

    DENVER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • RIVER NETWORK

    $250,000

    BOULDER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • COLORADO WATER TRUST INC

    $200,000

    DENVER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • ELEVATION COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

    $200,000

    DENVER, CO

    PROJECT SUPPORT

  • RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TR A COL

    $200,000

    DEL NORTE, CO

    LAND PURCHASE

The 10 largest to organizations. The API serves every grant row.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2025
Filed
17 April 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202631079349100508

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