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Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation at a glance

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Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$252k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$370kHuman Services$139kYouth Development$38kCrime & Legal$32kRecreation & Sports$29kArts & Culture$14kAnimals$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$968
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$101,053
Kenzi's Causes$21,000
JAMLAC$15,000
Judi's House$10,000
Childsafe Colorado$7,500
Martyred Angels Foundation$5,000
Joy and Justice$4,000
Illuminate Colorado Inc$4,000
Brothers Redevelopment$3,000
Cheyenne American Legion Post$3,000
Rooted 303$3,000
Rock Canyon HS Boys Lacross$3,000
A Precious Child$2,500
LGBT Community Center of Colorado$2,500
Sevicios De La Raza$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A Precious Child: $3k → 5%Rooted 303: $3k → 8%Genesis Project of Northern Colorado: $2k → 9%ROOTED 303: $1k → 8%Azteca Boxing Club: $1k → 9%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $22k → 12%AZTECA BOXING CLUB: $1k → 9%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $21k → 12%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $19k → 12%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $11k → 12%House of Neighborly Service: $2k → 11%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%DENVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%Canine Patners of the Rockies: $1k → 10%Denver Childrens Foundation: $1k → 12%AMERICAN HEROES IN ACTION: $1k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 10%KENZI'S CAUSES: $22k → 8%THE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $1k → 11%The Matthew's House: $1k → 11%Kenzi's Causes: $21k → 8%Joy and Justice: $4k → 11%Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking: $500 → 12%3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $3k → 11%Clothes to Kids of Denver: $1k → 12%Alternatives to Violence: $1k → 11%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $1k → 12%3 HOPEFUL HEARTS: $800 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 95%.

Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$793k · 41 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
36

Total granted

$793k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BP
    Brandon & Paul Foundation
    3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +5%
  • BR
    BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • SG
    STAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue +16%
  • FF
    FUNK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CH
    Craig Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition

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

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2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
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
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
7
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.

—
8
Colorado Child Advocacy Alliance

To support the missions of child advocacy centers in colorado to help children and their families heal from abuse and neglect via training, technical assistance, collaboration and strategic partnerships.

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
11
Colorado Organization for Victims's Assistance

The organization provides training, resources, and support for victims of crime and the professionals who serve them.

Human Services
12
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; 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.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
31/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADD: $266,633 · OtherMADDIndividual grant recipient: $178,598 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJAMLAC: $31,740 · Other+65 more: $180,819 · Other+65 moreDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $116,295 · Human ServicesDOLLS FOR DAUGHTER…+15 more: $32,450 · Human Services+15 moreLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthCraig Hospital: $5,000 · HealthSpina Bifida Association of Colorado: $4,000 · HealthNEUABILITY: $3,250 · HealthNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,500 · HealthArdent Grove Foundation: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC: $11,250 · Crime & LegalDENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO BAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR A CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER: $2,500 · Crime & LegalDENVER BAR FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,500 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $1,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER: $16,360 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsLOVELAND BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsSTAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC: $5,025 · Youth DevelopmentIlluminate Colorado: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter for Family Outreach Inc: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$657,790Human Services$148,745Health$31,250Philanthropy$31,000Crime & Legal$23,750Recreation & Sports$21,860Youth Development$16,025

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $116,295 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER: $16,360 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC: $11,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKRISTI VISOCKY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $6,600 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDENVER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $6,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBrandon & Paul Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC: $5,025 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIlluminate Colorado: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOTED 303: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE FOR HOOVES: $4,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of Colorado: $4,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 Denver Children's Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINNACOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO BAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArdent Grove Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 BAR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC CITY ENTERPRISES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAzteca Boxing Club: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHREE BIRDS ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELAND BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Lumies Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCOLORADO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS CARE: $1,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAMERICAN HEROES IN ACTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS ↗
  • Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY LEGAL AID CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KRISTI VISOCKY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Brandon & Paul Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR GIRLZ EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Illuminate Colorado ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds ROOTED 303 ↗
  • Who funds SIMS-FAYOLA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HOOVES ↗
  • Who funds Spina Bifida Association of Colorado ↗
  • Who funds Joy & Justice ↗
  • Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
  • Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds NEUABILITY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ANIMAL-ASSISTED CRISIS RESPONSE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Denver Children's Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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