How Your Donation Grows

The Gazette and El Pomar Foundation underwrite all administrative costs for the fund to ensure 100% of every donation goes directly to our nonprofit partners.

Thanks to matching funds, every donation grows up to 49%*

Bruni Foundation Match: $12,000 for every $100,000
El Pomar Foundation Match: $1 for every $3

Matching Funders

El Pomar Foundation

Philanthropy, whether institutional or personal, is viewed today as perhaps the best means of both restoring and enhancing the sense of individual commitment and responsibility necessary for our communities to prosper and care for those in need.

The same perspective was evident in Colorado more than 100 years ago. In 1892, Spencer Penrose arrived in Colorado Springs and would invest his life and re-invest his wealth to provide opportunities for generations of Coloradans to come. In building for tomorrow, he established a living legacy, El Pomar Foundation.

The foundation's trustees have continued Penrose's commitment to the future. El Pomar has grown to become one of the largest private foundations in the Rocky Mountain West. Its programs and staff are active throughout the state, assisting nonprofits with their worthwhile activities and lending support and recognition to nonprofit leaders and their organizations, while also identifying and preparing their successors from the next generation of Coloradans.

Bruni Foundation

The Greek scientist Archimedes once said that if he had a lever long enough he could move the world. Such is the power of leverage, and the Bruni Foundation is pleased to add its support to effective programs designed to strengthen and leverage our community's ability to care for its citizens. The Empty Stocking Fund, which magnifies community support during the traditional holiday giving season, is an excellent example of such a program.

The Empty Stocking Fund has come a long way over the years, due primarily to the generosity and commitment of the Colorado Springs community together with strong, innovative support furnished by The Gazette and El Pomar Foundation. It is an ideal example of a how a community of diverse interests and outlooks can pull together, as successful communities throughout history have, to care for those in need.

Successful communities, like successful individuals and companies, invest wisely in their own futures. At the Bruni Foundation, we believe that the holiday season represents an excellent time to reflect on the future that we desire and to join with our community to invest in support of the Colorado Springs area. After all, together we can move our world.