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Denver, CO

Bold Foundation Inc

EIN 84-2719715
Education & Youth Development College Access & Scholarships Children & youth Communities of color Low-income
Mission

The Bold Foundation (Bold.org) helps reduce the cost of education by creating, managing, and disbursing scholarships, fellowships, and grants that send funds directly to students and educational institutions.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

About Bold Foundation Inc

Bold Foundation Inc (Bold.org) is a Colorado-based 501(c)(3) public charity that operates a donor-facing online scholarship platform. The organization incubates and manages donor-created scholarships, memorial funds, and employer or foundation-backed awards, handling applications, selection support, and direct disbursement of awards to students or their schools. Since its 2019 tax-exempt recognition, Bold Foundation has scaled rapidly: it publishes a real-time public disbursement ledger and reports multi-year growth in scholarship disbursements, with millions disbursed annually and thousands of unique student recipients in recent years.

Notable achievements

Large-scale scholarship disbursements

Platform has disbursed more than $17 million to thousands of students, with year-over-year growth in annual disbursements since 2022.

Public disbursement ledger

Maintains a searchable, real-time ledger showing every scholarship payment, recipient, school, fund name, and amount to increase transparency.

Extensive memorial and donor funds

Hosts hundreds of memorial scholarship funds and supports tens of thousands of individual contributors and donor-created scholarship programs.

At a glance

Total assets
$4.1M
Annual revenue
$4.0M
Tax status
501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN
84-2719715
Location
Denver, CO
Website
bold.org
On Mahalo since
September 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Registered 501(c)(3) public charity incorporated in Colorado and files annual Form 990.
Listed on major nonprofit data platforms and transparency services (GuideStar/Candid profile with high transparency designation).
Featured by charity-rating/listing services and maintains a public profile used by donors and employers to create scholarship funds.

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