· Private foundation
Noel Barrett Shuler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $578k
- $250k+1 grant · $814k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESPITE CARE INC | $814,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $175,000 |
| COLORADO FFA FOUNDATION | $152,525 |
| FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR | $100,000 |
| GRACE VILLAGE | $100,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILDSAFE COLORADO | $40,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY | $31,000 |
| NOEL BARRETT SHULER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FOUNDANT TECHNOLOGIES | $8,800 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +71% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k 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
- CFCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +24% · 27% of their budget
- RCRESPITE CARE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +71%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY5× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- CSCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue -45% · 27% of their budget
- CFCenter for Family Outreach Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $135k · revenue +75%
- KIKIDSPAK INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +656%
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
Build community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using mostly local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients
Our mission is to provide emergency and alternative food resources to residents of Northwest Denver in ways that promote respect and dignity.
Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
The Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (FOMELC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in November 2005. FOMELC is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. We offer volunteer opportunities for all ages, physical…
Increases resilience to wildfire in Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel Counties in Colorado
The mission of feeding colorado, which represents the five feeding america food banks in the state, is to improve food security in colorado through policy, advocacy, partnership, and education.
Rangeland Fire Protection
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loveland Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Center for Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS ↗
- Who funds GRACE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds KIDSPAK INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF LOVELAND AND BERTHOUD INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF BIG ELK ↗
- Who funds RIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds LIVERMORE FIRE AND RESCUE FUND ↗
- Who funds CACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Glen Haven Area Volunteer Fire Departmen ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · El Pomar Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Northern Colorado United for Youth · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Nebraska Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust
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 Noel Barrett Shuler 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.