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Noel Barrett Shuler Foundation at a glance

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Noel Barrett Shuler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$814k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$2.0MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.3MYouth Development$935kPublic Safety & Disaster$660kEducation$500kCrime & Legal$350kArts & Culture$295kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $578k
  • $250k+1 grant · $814k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RESPITE CARE INC: $814k → 11%RESPITE CARE: $400k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $400k → 11%Children's Speech & Reading Center: $240k → 11%3 HOPEFUL HEARTS: $114k → 11%3 HOPEFUL HEARTS: $6k → 11%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$7.2M
$785k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +24% · 27% of their budget
  • RC
    RESPITE CARE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +71%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue -45% · 27% of their budget
  • CF
    Center for Family Outreach Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $135k · revenue +75%
  • KI
    KIDSPAK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +656%
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
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
4
Feeding Our Community Ourselves Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Northwest Family Assistance Center

Our mission is to provide emergency and alternative food resources to residents of Northwest Denver in ways that promote respect and dignity.

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6
Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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7
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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8
Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wildernesses

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…

Environment
9
West Region Wildfire Council

Increases resilience to wildfire in Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel Counties in Colorado

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Feeding 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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Lookout-Glasgow Rangeland Protection Ass

Rangeland Fire Protection

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loveland Habitat for Humanity Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,652,525 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $800,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNT…Center for Family Outreach Inc: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500,000 · OtherFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLE…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN: $500,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOR…LOVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $490,892 · OtherLOVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANI…CASA OF LARIMAR COUNTY: $350,000 · OtherCASA OF LARIMAR COUNTY+8 more: $172,714 · Other+8 moreRESPITE CARE INC: $1,614,000 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE INCCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER: $240,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READIN…3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $120,000 · Human Services3HOPEFUL HEARTSFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterFORT COLLINS…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBOR TO …GRACE VILLAGE: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterGRACE VILLAG…CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC: $282,640 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $175,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSPAK INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF LOVELAND AND BERTHOUD INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionVOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF BIG ELK: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Youth Development$2,587,525Other$2,013,606Human Services$1,974,000Housing & Shelter$900,000Crime & Legal$282,640Arts & Culture$275,000Food & Nutrition$200,000Public Safety & Disaster$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,652,525 over 6y, 27% of budgetRESPITE CARE INC: $1,614,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $800,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $600,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLOVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $490,892 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDSAFE COLORADO INC: $282,640 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPEECH & READING CENTER: $240,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budget3HOPEFUL HEARTS: $120,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetGRACE VILLAGE: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF LOVELAND AND BERTHOUD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLIVERMORE FIRE AND RESCUE FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCACHE LA POUDRE FIRE AND EMERGENCY GROUP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGlen Haven Area Volunteer Fire Departmen: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Colorado Gives Founda…Otter Cares Foundatio…El Pomar FoundationUnited Way of Larimer…Anschutz Family Found…The Nordson Corporati…Northern Colorado Uni…Woodward Governor Cha…Nebraska Community Fo…First Interstate Banc…Don & May Wilkins Cha…
Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoCO44.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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