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Schotters Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Schotters Family Charitable 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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$27k
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 2024.

Environment$125kEducation$43kRecreation & Sports$3kEmployment$500
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$753k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO ACADEMY$27,000
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS$27,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$7,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION$2,000
DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%COLORADO ACADEMY: $27k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%THE CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%COLORADO ACADEMY: $13k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $27k → 12%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%COLORADO ACADEMY: $7k → 7%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $25k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $25k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $25k → 12%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $25k → 12%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $25k → 12%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%THE WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $500 → 12%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 5 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$232k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-22%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEmploymentAnimalsOther
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

  • DB
    DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $152k · revenue +140%
  • CA
    COLORADO ACADEMY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue +2%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • Culver Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • WB
    WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -57%
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
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Longitudinal Study

Advancing the health of people through advancing the science of medicine. the colorado longitudinal study (cols) is building the world's most comprehensive longitudinal collection of biological specimens matched with clinical health and…

Education
4
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
5
Alexander Dawson Foundation

The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…

Education
6
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
7
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
8
Mountain Middle School

Mountain middle school (mms or the school), a colorado non-profit corporation, was created in 2009 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school located in durango, colorado. mms inspires students to own…

Education
9
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
12
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Academy; the most unlike its peers is Culver Educational 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $152,000 · EnvironmentDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INCCOLORADO ACADEMY: $46,600 · EducationCOLORADO ACADEMYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONCulver Educational Foundation: $5,000 · EducationCulver Educational FoundationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $6,000 · OtherJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Community ImprovementDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · AnimalsWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $500 · Employment
Environment$152,000Education$81,100Other$6,000Community Improvement$4,500Animals$2,000Employment$500

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 budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $152,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $46,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Schotters Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schotters Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    2report 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 9 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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