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Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.9MHealth$2.6MHuman Services$1.6MYouth Development$881kArts & Culture$857kEnvironment$760kRecreation & Sports$514kCrime & Legal$460kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $851k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
TOWN OF HAYDEN$100,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW$90,000
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$55,500
REACHING EVERYONE PREVENTING SUICIDE (REPS)$55,000
YAMPA VALLEY AUTISM PROGRAM$50,000
LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY$50,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE$50,000
FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$50,000
SOUTH ROUTT SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL$50,000
BETTER TOMORROW$50,000
HAYDEN SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY$45,000
NORTHWEST COLORADO HEALTH$45,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $36k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $30k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $20k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $20k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $19k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS: $15k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS INC: $5k → 6%TOTALLY KIDS: $4k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%LIFT-UP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $50k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $37k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $30k → 6%BETTER TOMORROW: $25k → 6%BETTER TOMORROW: $25k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $15k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $15k → 6%LIFTUP OF ROUTT COUNTY: $12k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $10k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $5k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $3k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $3k → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $500 → 6%YOUNG TRACKS: $500 → 6%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

NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
DC
AL
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 78 repeat orgs$666k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
44

Total granted

$12M
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NC
    National Center for Youth Law
    5× · 2020–2024 · $460k · revenue +14%
  • TL
    THE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +142%
  • IC
    INTEGRATED COMMUNITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • R
    REPROCOLLAB
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • NC
    NW CO COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
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.

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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
2
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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3
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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4
Routt County Economic Development Partnership

The purpose(s) of the Partnership is to improve the quality of life and economic well-being across Routt County by: (i) enabling business and job retention to increase employment and improve the public welfare, (ii) promoting and assisting…

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Destination Colorado Meetings

a member based state association of over 100 companies targeting meeting planners & incentive buyers. members include bureaus, hotels, resorts, destination management companies, activity companies, & other meeting services. we are…

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8
Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo

The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.

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9
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
10
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
11
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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12
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Totally Kids Inc. 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

68 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. 68 of the 133 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/68
Grantees still filing
49/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Steamboat Springs School District RE-2: $767,000 · OtherSteamboat Springs School District RE-2South Routt School District RE-3: $576,653 · OtherSouth Routt School District RE-3Hayden School District No RE-1: $539,880 · OtherHayden School District No RE-1National Center for Youth Law: $460,000 · OtherNational Center for Youth LawTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL: $440,000 · OtherTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOLCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · Other+86 more: $3,509,983 · Other+86 moreYAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,161,459 · HealthYAMPA VALLEY MED…NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $382,750 · HealthNORTHWEST COLORA…COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC: $281,780 · HealthCOLORADO WEST RE…ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $126,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN D…+1 more: $20,000 · HealthINTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $437,481 · Human ServicesINTEGRATED COMM…Yampa Valley Autism Program: $325,543 · Human ServicesYampa Valley Au…Lift Up of Routt County: $242,000 · Human ServicesLift Up of Rout…TOTALLY KIDS INC: $238,850 · Human ServicesTOTALLY KIDS IN…STEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER: $188,000 · Human ServicesSTEAMBOAT SPRIN…BETTER TOMORROW: $179,295 · Human ServicesBETTER TOMORROWYOUNG TRACKS INC: $163,250 · Human ServicesYOUNG TRACKS IN…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOOK TRAILS INC: $224,000 · EducationPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY: $197,880 · EducationHERITAGE PARK PRESCHOOL: $133,000 · EducationNorthwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc: $123,100 · EducationNORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $105,200 · EducationSTEAMBOAT READING INC: $95,000 · EducationROUTT COUNTY RIDERS: $65,000 · EducationSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $315,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA: $175,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA STEAMBOAT: $110,000 · Arts & CultureSTEAMBOAT DANCE THEATRE: $58,850 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $38,000 · Arts & CultureSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $230,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Cycle Effect: $121,000 · Recreation & SportsSOS OUTREACH: $79,500 · Recreation & SportsSteamboat Tennis Association: $45,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $248,000 · EnvironmentYAMPATIKA: $107,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · EnvironmentSolar United Neighbors Inc: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · Environment
Other$6,843,516Health$1,971,989Human Services$1,784,419Education$943,180Arts & Culture$726,850Recreation & Sports$485,500Environment$435,000

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 budgetYAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,161,459 over 7y, 20% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $460,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL: $440,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY: $437,481 over 8y, 13% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $382,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetYampa Valley Autism Program: $325,543 over 8y, 12% of budgetSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $315,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCOLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC: $281,780 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $248,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetLift Up of Routt County: $242,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTOTALLY KIDS INC: $238,850 over 8y, 15% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $230,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $227,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBOOK TRAILS INC: $224,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY: $197,880 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO: $197,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER: $188,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetBETTER TOMORROW: $179,295 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $176,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA: $175,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetYOUNG TRACKS INC: $163,250 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $142,525 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHERITAGE PARK PRESCHOOL: $133,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $126,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetNorthwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc: $123,100 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $121,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetOPERA STEAMBOAT: $110,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetYAMPATIKA: $107,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetNORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $105,200 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEMERALD MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $96,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTEAMBOAT READING INC: $95,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $79,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE INC: $65,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN CASA: $65,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetROUTT COUNTY RIDERS: $65,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetSTEAMBOAT DANCE THEATRE: $58,850 over 8y, 15% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY: $46,533 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSteamboat Tennis Association: $45,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPHILANTHROPY COLORADO: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCOLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWORKLIFE PARTNERSHIP: $26,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC: $25,500 over 2y, 0.4% 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 YAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Center for Youth Law ↗
  • Who funds THE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program ↗
  • Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
  • Who funds TOTALLY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
  • Who funds BOOK TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds STEAMBOAT SPRINGS DISCOVERY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BETTER TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG TRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE PARK PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Colorado Center for Independence Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
  • Who funds OPERA STEAMBOAT ↗
  • Who funds YAMPATIKA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗

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 FoundationCO76.8× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · United Way of the Yampa Valley · Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Steamboat Springs Education Fund · Kettering Family Foundation · Steve and Kelly Bloom Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation

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 Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 133 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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