Colorado · Private foundation
Schoelzel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $506k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Schoelzel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $506k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $481k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $452k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $492k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $392k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $234k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $185k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $152k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $491,365 | 9 | 0% |
| Tall Tales Ranch | $427,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Warren Village Inc | $186,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Denver Zoological Foundation | $157,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Gold Crown Foundation | $112,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Aspire Scholarship | $79,500 | 9 | 16% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $49,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Graland Country Day School | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($988k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schoelzel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Records Johnston Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Libertygives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation
How this is measured
About Schoelzel Family Foundation
- How much does Schoelzel Family Foundation give?
- Schoelzel Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $505,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schoelzel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (39%), Health (20%), Education (11%).
- Who are Schoelzel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Dumb Friends League ($491k), Tall Tales Ranch ($427k), Warren Village Inc ($186k).
- Does Schoelzel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schoelzel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schoelzel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Schoelzel Family Foundation based?
- Schoelzel Family Foundation is based in CO.
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