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Charles H Kurtz Family Foundation at a glance

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Charles H Kurtz Family 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.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$236kHealth$46kYouth Development$33kRecreation & Sports$23kArts & Culture$20kEducation$18kCommunity Improvement$13kScience & Tech$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
South Routt Ag Program$16,000
Boys Girls Club of NW CO$15,000
American Rivers$10,000
Colorado Open Lands$7,500
Cattlemen's Land Trust$5,350
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Forest Trends Association$5,000
Trout Unlimited$5,000
Gates Center for Regenerative Med$5,000
Kelly Brush Foundation$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Island Academy Intl School$2,500
Steamboat Art Museum$2,500
Routt County Riders$2,000
Denver Art Museum$2,000
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Women's Foundation of Colorado: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
NY
OR
OH
RI
CO
VA
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$394k · 36 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
17

Total granted

$394k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
-8%

Still filing today

42%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN LANDS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +302%
  • TK
    THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +158%
  • AMERICAN RIVERS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +437%
  • UO
    University of Denver Advancement
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CR
    COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -8%
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
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
2
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
3
Living Rivers

Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…

Environment
4
Uviation World Water

To leverage education, technology, and innovative solutions to improve river health.

Environment
5
Colorado Headwaters Land Trust

To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.

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6
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
7
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
8
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
9
Colorado River Land Trust Inc

Clrt works in partnership with landowners to conserve and protect land and water resources.

Environment
10
Colo Foundation for Water Education

Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.

Environment
11
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
12
Big Thompson Watershed Coalition

Vision: a healthy and resilient big thompson watershed benefitting fish, wildlife, and the people itserves through collaborative efforts for current and future generations. mission: working with others to take action that protects and…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado; the most unlike its peers is The Colorado Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trout Unlimited: $40,000 · OtherTrout UnlimitedSouth Routt Ag Program: $27,000 · OtherSouth Routt Ag ProgramBoys Girls Club of NW CO: $24,500 · OtherBoys Girls Club of NW COCattlemen's Land Trust: $21,850 · OtherCattlemen's Land TrustGates Center for Regenerative Med: $15,000 · OtherGates Center for Regenerative MedSouth Routt County Community Fnd: $13,000 · OtherSouth Routt County Community FndIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBrown University Foundation: $8,750 · Other+36 more: $68,211 · Other+36 moreCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $75,350 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDSFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $13,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INCDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $4,500 · Environment+3 more: $6,500 · EnvironmentTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsThe Cycle Effect: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsFriends of the Lower Blue River: $7,000 · EducationROUTT COUNTY RIDERS: $4,000 · EducationCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationDENVER ART MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSTEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM: $5,300 · Arts & CultureURBAN PEAK DENVER: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$231,311Environment$134,850Recreation & Sports$34,000Education$13,500Arts & Culture$11,300Housing & Shelter$4,000Youth Development$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $75,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Lower Blue River: $7,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM: $5,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROUTT COUNTY RIDERS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWIVES FOR HAITI INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
  • Who funds FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Lower Blue River ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROUTT COUNTY RIDERS ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
  • Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗

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…Craig-Scheckman Famil…The Moniker FoundationRose Community Founda…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Charles H Kurtz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Kurtz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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