Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation
THE FOUNDATION HAS INVESTED OVER $7.8 MILLION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS TO SUPPORT COLORADO NONPROFITS
- OUR MISSION
The Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation promotes safe and attainable housing, advances homeownership for all Coloradans and provides housing-related disaster assistance to our neighbors in need.
- OUR VISION
Coloradans to achieve the American dream of homeownership.
- OUR PURPOSE
The Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation serves Colorado REALTORS® as the philanthropic and community engagement arm of the Colorado Association of REALTORS®.
Join Us
Be a part of promoting safe and affordable housing, advancing homeownership and housing related disaster assistance! Check back to apply for the Foundation Board of Directors!
Contact Us
Office: 309 Inverness Way S., Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: 303.790.7099
Office Hours: M—F | 8:00am to 5:00pm
A Little About Us
The Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation (The Foundation) began in 1960 as the CAR Education Foundation. It was created to further real estate education and research. In 1991, the CAR Housing Opportunity Foundation (CARHOF) was established. Grant funding began in 1993 to assist with safe and affordable housing throughout Colorado. The initial grant monies came from Colorado REALTOR® brokers and title companies who invested their client’s earnest money into interest bearing escrow accounts.
The interest earnings were then donated to CARHOF. Today, hundreds of Colorado brokers and title companies support the Foundation with interest earning contributions from escrow accounts. In 2018, the Foundation was established to combine the Educational Foundation and the Housing Opportunity Foundation under one philanthropic umbrella. At that time, the Foundation established the Disaster Relief Fund in response to the devastating fires and floods that plagued Colorado in 2013 and 2014.
Today, the Foundation is the philanthropic and community engagement arm of the Colorado REALTORS®, real estate agencies, title companies, builders and other affiliate partners who work collaboratively to advance safe and affordable housing programs, education for consumers on homeownership, and provide disaster relief to our neighbors in need.
The CAR Foundation has invested over $7.8 million over 25 years to support Colorado nonprofits that encourage safe and affordable housing, promote homeownership and provide disaster relief to our fellow Coloradans.
Advocates for Victims of Assault – Summit Advocates (Frisco)
$12,500
Archway Housing – (Lakewood)
$7,000
Chaffee Housing Trust – Buena Vista
$10,000
Grand Junction Housing Authority – Grand Junction
$12,000
Greccio Housing – Colorado Springs
$10,000
Mercy Housing – Denver
$15,000
Project Hope of Gunnison Valley – Gunnison
$7,250
Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation – Arvada
$13,750
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence – Boulder
$7,500
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence – Boulder
$7,500
Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation – Denver
$10,000
Veterans Community Project – Longmont
$20,000
We Encourage You to Apply For a Grant!
How to Apply:
The Foundation’s 2020 grant application cycle closed on June 1, 2020. Please check back soon for 2021 Grant applications
Submit questions via email at: scallander@ColoradoREALTORS.com
Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation
309 Inverness Way South
Englewood, CO 80112
Given the Foundation’s small staff size, please understand the Foundation will not be in a position to accept meeting requests with nonprofits interested in applying for a grant.
Some of our past grant recipients include:
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Denver, Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain, Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, Colorado Affordable Housing Partnership, The Real Estate School, Warren Village, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, TESSA, The Salvation Army, Grant Junction Housing Authority, Greeley Transitional House, HomeAid Colorado, Family Tree, Partners in Hope and Housing, Chaffee Housing Trust, Mercy Housing.
Partner with the Foundation!
Since 1991, thousands of real estate brokers, owners and title companies across Colorado have supported the Foundation (and formerly CARHOF) in a substantial way by investing client’s earnest money in interest bearing escrow accounts and directing their financial institutions and/or title companies to transfer all interest earnings to the Foundation. This collaborative effort of thousands of partners has resulted in millions of dollars of investment in the Foundation’s programs to support safe and affordable housing over the last 25 years. The Foundation is grateful for the continued support of our partners! Thank you!
New Broker Partners
Supporting the Foundation’s Housing Program is easy! As the broker you have the opportunity to direct how your client’s earnest money is invested. You do not need the company’s or the banks permission to request that your client’s earnest money is invested in an interest-bearing escrow account.
- To enroll your real estate company click the button below.
- If your brokerage places its client’s earnest money in an escrow account held by a title company, then click the button below.
Your company will be recognized as a Housing Program Partner on the Foundation’s website. You will also be invited to check presentations and will be recognized as a participating Partner whose support makes the Foundation’s grant-making possible.
New Title Company Partners
Join the many title companies who support the Foundation by participating in the Housing Program funded by interest-bearing escrow accounts. Please complete and submit the Title Company Enrollment Form.
Your company will be recognized as a Housing Program Partner on the Foundation’s website. You will also be invited to check presentations and will be recognized as a participating Partner whose support makes the Foundation’s grantmaking possible.
Thank You to Our Housing Program Partners!
Advantage Bank | Alpine Bank | Bank of Colorado | Bank of Estes Park | Bank of the West | Bank of the San Juans | Champion Bank | City Wide Bank | Collegiate Peaks Bank | Community Banks of Colorado | Evergreen National Bank | First Bank | First Citizens Bank | TBK Bank | First State Bank of Colorado | Guaranty Bank and Trust Company | Gunnison Bank and Trust | High Country Bank | Key Bank | Kirkpatrick Bank | Mountain View Bank of Commerce | Mutual of Omaha Bank | Pikes Peak National Bank | San Luis Valley Federal Bank | Yampa Valley Bank
DEBORAH SHIPLEY
Chair
REcolorado
KATIA DE ORBEGOSO
Chair-Elect
RE/MAX Edge
CHRIS DJORUP
Past-Chair
Metro Brokers Real Estate
WIL HOTZ
Treasurer
FirstBank
JEROME BLEGER
Director
The Wells Group Real Estate Brokerage
AMANDA ERICKSON
Director-AE
Durango Association of REALTORS®
ROBERT WALKOWICZ
Car Chair
The Group, Inc.
MATTHEW HINTERMEISTER
Car Chair-Elect
LIV Sotheby’s Intl Realty
BEVERLEE HENRY
Director
LIV Sothebys Referral Network
DAWN MULLIN
Director
Vail Board of REALTORS®
MARY ANN HINRICHSEN
Secretary – CAR Treasurer
RE/MAX Masters Millenium
CONNIE TREMBLAY
Director
Berkshire Hathaway HomeService
TYRONE ADAMS
CAR CEO
Colorado Assoc. of REALTORS®
JANENE JOHNSON
Director
Real Estate of Winter Park
SUZAN KOREN
Director-AE
LIV Sothebys Referral Network
AMY MCDERMOTT
DIRECTOR
CAR FOUNDATION
DONATE
Please click on the donation button below and choose which program you want your $100 donation to support and the Foundation will send your HEART PIN! (The program options are Housing, Education, and Disaster Relief.)