· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| HUMANE COLORADO | $60,000 |
| DENVER ZOO CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| WARREN VILLAGE | $30,000 |
| TALL TALES RANCH | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKEIS | $25,000 |
| GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ALSAC | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE PUEBLO INC | $15,000 |
| REACH OUT AND READ CO | $10,000 |
| CURE SEARCH FOR CHILDRENS CANCER | $10,000 |
| AWE | $10,000 |
| ANCHOR CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPTIAL CO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE9× · 2017–2025 · $491k · revenue +254%
- TTTALL TALES RANCH8× · 2018–2025 · $427k · revenue +193%
- WVWARREN VILLAGE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $186k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
- GRGOLDEN RULE RELIEF FUND - GLOBAL IMPACTone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IIAPFone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
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…
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is T Kevin Mcnicholas 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
52 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. 52 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 DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Zarlengo Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds THE CHERRY HILLS PALMER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER SANTA CLAUSE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds A FRIEND OF JACK RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital 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 · 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
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 Schoelzel 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.