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Schuster Family Foundation at a glance

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Schuster Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2019
21
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2019 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA OF LARIMER COUNTY$5,000
TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM$5,000
COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE$5,000
VOICES CARRY ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
PC'S FOR PEOPLE$4,500
ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ELK$4,000
COOL SCIENCE$4,000
COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS$4,000
EXPAND BEYOND$4,000
YOUTHROOTS$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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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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ASPIRE 3D: $2k → 11%IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $3k → 12%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $5k → 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 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
Year One Inc

The mission of mile high youth corps is to help youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful service opportunities and educational experiences.

Youth Development
2
Colorado Learning Connections

Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.

Education
3
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

Rocky mountain youth corps engages young people in the outdoors, inspiring them to use their strengths and potential to lead healthy, productive lives. we teach responsibility for self, community, and environment through teamwork, service,…

Youth Development
4
Colorado Outward Bound School

Colorado outward bound school changes lives through challenge and discovery.

Environment
5
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
6
Elevating Connections

Elevating Connections is dedicated to building sustained positive relationships for current & former youth in foster care-including those experiencing sibling separation-to find their voice & build meaningful community connections.

Youth Development
7
ElevateHER

Elevateher's mission is to foster self-worth and grit in young women through mentoring, outdoor adventure, and holistic wellness programs.

Youth Development
8
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
9
Ouray County Schools Community Resource Consortium Inc

To inspire Ouray County youth to lead healthy lives. We work in partnership with local schools and community partners to create enriching programs, provide leadership opportunities and build youth's strengths that support their wellbeing…

Human Services
10
Team Summit

Team summit is a youth development organization empowering our athletes to realize and celebrate their personal podiums through athletics, education and life skills by participating in innovative programming at our world class venues.

Recreation & Sports
11
Teens Inc

Teens, inc. supports, educates, and empowers youth and their families to make healthy choices and thrive.

Youth Development
12
Sos Outreach

Sos outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Young Leaders; the most unlike its peers is Boulder Community Housing Corporation Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 21 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC: $5,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INCEXPAND BEYOND INC: $4,000 · OtherEXPAND BEYOND INCPLAYWORKS: $3,000 · OtherPLAYWORKSADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATIONHIGHER GROUND YOUTH CHALLENGE: $2,500 · OtherHIGHER GROUND YOUTH CHALLENGEENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $2,500 · OtherENERGY OUTREACH COLORADOBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc: $2,500 · OtherBoulder Community Housing Corporation…THE DENVER HOMELESS VOICE: $1,500 · OtherTHE DENVER HOMELESS VOICETRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAMCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHAN…ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FO…COLORADO YOUNG LEADERS: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO YOUNG LEADERSPCS FOR PEOPLE: $4,500 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLEIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $3,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE ADAPTIV…ASPIRE 3D: $2,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE 3DCOOL SCIENCE: $4,000 · EducationCOOL SCIENCEYOUTHROOTS: $4,000 · EducationYOUTHROOTSCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO …ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $2,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CEN…THE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & LegalAdaptive Adventures: $3,400 · Health
Other$24,000Youth Development$16,500Human Services$9,500Education$8,000Environment$6,000Crime & Legal$5,000Health$3,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CRAWFORD CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHROOTS: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER GROUND YOUTH CHALLENGE: $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOLORADO YOUNG LEADERS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENVER HOMELESS VOICE: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationAnschutz Family Found…Rose Community Founda…Nathan B & Florence R…Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…El Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Union Pacific Foundat…Mile High United Way …The Ajl Charitable Fo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO31.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Ajl Charitable Foundation

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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