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Engle Family Foundation at a glance

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Engle Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2020.

Arts & Culture$30kHealth$9kHuman Services$6kReligion$5kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCommunity Improvement$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2020 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chmaber Music Exchange$6,000
Colorado State University Foundation$3,000
Off The Hook Arts$3,000
Community Foundation of Middle TN$1,000
Metro Caring$510
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 (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Camp Kesem: $1k → 14%Camp Kesem: $500 → 14%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
MA
IA
CA
CO
NE
MD
TN
NC
TX
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29k · 6 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$29k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+75%

Still filing today

83%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • OT
    Off the Hook Arts
    3× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • GG
    GLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +52%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LA
    LAMB ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • CT
    CROSSING THE CANYON 2017
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +71%
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 Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
2
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
3
Barton Institute for Community Action

The barton institute supports leaders and their communities who are working to develop and foster places for opportunity, connection, and belonging in metro denver.

Philanthropy
4
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
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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8
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

—
9
Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts

To inspire and connect community members of all ages by providing access to the best of the world's music through education and performance.

Arts & Culture
10
Foundation for Creative Broadcasting

To connect the communities of tucson and southern arizona to each other and to the world, with informative, engaging and creative community-based programming.

Arts & Culture
11
Colorado Music Bridge

Colorado nbsp;music nbsp;bridge nbsp;provides nbsp;access nbsp;to nbsp;inclusive nbsp;modern nbsp;music nbsp;education nbsp;programs nbsp;curricular nbsp;resources nbsp;and nbsp;professional nbsp;development

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Wild Animal Sanctuary. 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

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAMB ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE: $12,000 · OtherLAMB ARTS REGIONAL THEATRECHAMBER MUSIC EXCHANGE INC: $6,000 · OtherCHAMBER MUSIC EXCHANGE INCCHURCH OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL: $5,100 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GUARDIAN ANGELCROSSING THE CANYON 2017: $4,000 · OtherCROSSING THE CANYON 2017+8 more: $5,260 · Other+8 moreOff the Hook Arts: $9,500 · Arts & CultureOff the Hook ArtsFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,688 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION: $6,500 · HealthGLENN GARCELON…CHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC: $1,700 · HealthCHARM CITY CAR…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationBIKEMORE INC: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCamp Kesem National: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,200 · AnimalsTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$32,360Arts & Culture$12,188Health$8,200Education$4,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000Human Services$1,500Animals$1,200Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetOff the Hook Arts: $9,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGLENN GARCELON FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,688 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKEMORE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHARM CITY CARE CONNECTION INC: $1,700 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO CARING: $510 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 21 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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