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Koelbel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY | $125,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PTCO | $15,000 |
| MUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION | $9,300 |
| COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE (FKA COMMON SENSE POLICY ROUNDTABLE) | $8,333 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO | $2,500 |
| THE PARK PEOPLE | $2,500 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION (DBA MIZEL INSTITUTE) | $1,500 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP | $500 |
| WHIZ KIDS TUTORING | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +58%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $750k · revenue +25%
- DZDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $722k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- COCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +12%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +86%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM ANNUAL FUND LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGNone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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…
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.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harry Trueblood 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
54 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. 54 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARK PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT PTCO CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ELEMENTARY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO ↗
- Who funds MUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation
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 Koelbel Family 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.
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.
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