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· Private foundation
SCHUSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$72k
Granted FY2019
21
Grants
1
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 21 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$3,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- CASA OF LARIMER COUNTY$5,000
- COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE$5,000
- TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM$5,000
- VOICES CARRY ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
- PC'S FOR PEOPLE$4,500
- YOUTHROOTS$4,000
- COOL SCIENCE$4,000
- COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS$4,000
- ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ELK$4,000
- EXPAND BEYOND$4,000
- ADAPTIVE ADVENTURES$3,400
- IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS$3,000
- ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION$3,000
- PLAYWORKS$3,000
- BOULDER COMMUNITY HOUSING$2,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc
The mission of Colorado Outdoor Education Center is to develop the potential of individuals by providing extraordinary educational experiences in the natural world.
Environment
2
Usa Triathlon of Colorado
The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.
Recreation & Sports
3
Colorado Youth Outdoors Charitable Trust
Building Relationships through Traditional Outdoor Recreation
Environment
4
Ascend College Prep
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
Education
5
Vive
VIVE addresses the health equity and wellness needs of many of Colorados low-income youth, who face significant health disparities and often lack access to engaging physical activity and health education.
Youth Development
6
Colorado Discover Ability
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
Recreation & Sports
7
Colorado Renewable Energy Society
To lead colorado and its people to an energy-efficient ee and renewable-energy re economy through education, policy and economic development.
Environment
8
Aia Colorado
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
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9
Colorado Learning Connections
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
Education
10
Yampatika
Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.
Environment
11
Colorado Thrives
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Community Improvement
12
Rise Colorado
Work to educate, engage and empower low income families and families of color to end educational inequality in our public school system.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adaptive Adventures and the most unlike its peers is Energy Outreach Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$39,000Youth Development$10,000Education$8,000Human Services$5,000Health$3,400Housing & Shelter$2,500Recreation & Sports$2,500Environment$2,000
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 YOUTH FOR A CHANGE ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COOL SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHROOTS ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE 3D ↗
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.
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation SCHUSTER 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 464789197 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Schuster Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Schuster Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines