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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.

$580k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MPublic Benefit$840kAnimals$722kEnvironment$401kRecreation & Sports$325kHealth$100kHuman Services$82kPhilanthropy$74kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FREEDOM FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
THE PARK PEOPLE$2,500
REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO$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
RESTORATION COMMUNITY CHURCH$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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%MUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $9k → 8%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE INC: $1k → 8%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.
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.
$4.0M · 47 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
34

Total granted

$4.0M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

60%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +58%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $750k · revenue +25%
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $722k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +86%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -50%
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 Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
2
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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3
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
4
Colorado State University Foundation

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…

Education
5
Education Commission of the States

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…

Education
6
Philanthropy Colorado

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.

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
8
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
9
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
10
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
11
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
12
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 86 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
39/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,126,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $66,143 · EducationSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER+9 more: $44,500 · EducationHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $375,500 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $55,000 · Other+57 more: $409,800 · Other+57 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC…+6 more: $38,500 · Arts & CultureDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $722,000 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL F…THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $202,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $76,665 · Social Science
Education$1,236,643Other$1,040,300Arts & Culture$788,500Animals$722,000Recreation & Sports$220,000Philanthropy$131,000Social Science$76,665

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,126,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $750,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $722,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $375,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $202,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $76,665 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $66,143 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $34,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE PARK PEOPLE: $21,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT PTCO CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ELEMENTARY: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStep Denver: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $9,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DENVER: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $6,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC: $6,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRIFFITH CENTERS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARAPAHOE LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWELD COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransplant Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $1,000 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 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 CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT PTCO CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ELEMENTARY ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
  • 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 WHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗

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 FoundationDaniels FundRose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationSchlessman Foundation…Adolph Coors Foundati…The Janus Henderson F…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Amg Charitable Gift F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO43.7× affinity23 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Koelbel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Koelbel 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 86 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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