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Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$185k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$370kHuman Services$139kYouth Development$38kCrime & Legal$32kRecreation & Sports$29kArts & Culture$14kAnimals$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$77,545
KENZI'S CAUSES$22,282
JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER$16,360
THE FUNK FOUNDATION$5,000
LAFAYETTE WARRIOR RUGBY CLUB$4,000
GARRETSON'S SPORT CENTER$3,814
CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC$3,750
HOPE ANIMAL - ASSISTED CRISIS RESPONSE$3,000
RALSTON HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$3,000
SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO$3,000
FOSSIL RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL$2,900
BRANDON AND PAUL FOUNDATION$2,500
3HOPEFUL HEARTS$2,500
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO$2,500
FORT COLLINS HS GRIDIRON BOOSTERS$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROOTED 303: $1k → 8%AZTECA BOXING CLUB: $1k → 9%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $22k → 12%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $21k → 12%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $19k → 12%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $11k → 12%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%THE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $1k → 11%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%AMERICAN HEROES IN ACTION: $1k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 10%3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $3k → 11%KENZI'S CAUSES: $22k → 8%3 HOPEFUL HEARTS: $800 → 11%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$476k · 24 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
26

Total granted

$476k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+48%

Still filing today

63%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SG
    STAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +19%
  • SB
    Spina Bifida Association of Colorado
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • J
    JAMLAC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
  • CH
    Craig Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • SF
    SIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +243%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition

To advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.

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3
Colorado Lawyers Committee

To provide legal assistance and increase opportunities for children and other disadvantaged communities through advocacy, negotiation and litigation. Volunteer attorneys dedicate time to improve the quality of life for these causes while…

Crime & Legal
4
Nami Colorado

Nami colorado offers educational programs designed to educate and support family members, friends and individuals affected by mental illness. we aim to develop skills to help people cope with the challenges of mental illness. we advocate…

Health
5
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
6
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
7
Colorado Concerns of Police Survivors

The mission statement of c.o.p.s. reflects the strong belief that assistance, guidance, understanding, empathy, and hope for the future for the survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty begins with a caring, prepared…

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8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
10
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.

Human Services
11
Domestic Violence Initiative for Women With Disabilities

Empowering victims and creating a bridge to close the gap for people with disabilities through discovery of self-resiliency by providing support and services.

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12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is The Lumies Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Outdoor Youth & Adaptive Pr…Faith-Based International D…Professional Trade Associat…Environmental Conservation …Youth Sports ClubsLivestock Industry Associat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCharter Schools and Alterna…Family Philanthropic Founda…Industry Trade AssociationsHealthcare Provider Networks
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%54%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
14%
2,002/14,061

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
24/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MADD — $266,633 · OtherMADDIndividual grant recipient — $77,545 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $20,371 · OtherJAMLAC — $16,740 · Other+42 more — $98,298 · Other+42 moreDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS — $95,295 · Human ServicesDOLLS FOR DAUGHTER…+9 more — $12,700 · Human Services+9 moreLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthCraig Hospital — $5,000 · HealthSpina Bifida Association of Colorado — $4,000 · HealthNEUABILITY — $3,250 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthThe Lumies Foundation — $1,000 · HealthJUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER — $16,360 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $4,500 · Recreation & SportsLOVELAND BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsJUDI'S HOUSE INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS CARE — $1,000 · PhilanthropySTAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC — $5,025 · Youth DevelopmentSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter for Family Outreach Inc — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate Colorado — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC — $3,750 · Crime & LegalDENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO BAR FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$479,587Human Services$107,995Health$25,250Recreation & Sports$21,860Philanthropy$21,000Youth Development$12,025Crime & Legal$10,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS — $95,295 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER — $16,360 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC — $5,025 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCraig Hospital — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKRISTI VISOCKY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $4,400 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of Colorado — $4,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC — $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HOOVES — $3,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBrandon & Paul Foundation — $3,500 over 2y, 18% of budget3HOPEFUL HEARTS — $3,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEUABILITY — $3,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE ANIMAL-ASSISTED CRISIS RESPONSE — $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO BAR FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Family Outreach Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINNACOL FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS CARE — $1,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetIlluminate Colorado — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROOTED 303 — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HEROES IN ACTION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAzteca Boxing Club — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVELAND BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lumies Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 45% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationRose Community Founda…Denver Broncos Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationCaring for Colorado F…Western Union Foundat…Otter Cares Foundatio…Daniels Fund
Colorado Gives FoundationCO37.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Denver Broncos Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Daniels Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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