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· Private foundation
STAKY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$66k
Granted FY2025
18
Grants
4
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of STAKY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2025 · 18 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHALLENGE FOUNDATION$10,000
- CHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
- COLORADO HOME AID$6,554
- SALVATION ARMY$5,203
- IOWA STATE FOUNDATION$5,000
- ALBON COLLEGE$3,000
- THIRD STORY$3,000
- WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,611
- CROSS PURPOSES$2,500
- CRAIG HOSPITAL$2,500
- STEP DENVER$2,500
- PROVICENCE NETWORK$2,500
- JO ANNE FICKE CANCER FOUNDATION$2,500
- DENVER RESCUE MISSION$2,500
- HIS LOVE FELLOWSHIP$2,000
02The need
03
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 3% — the area typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 edge
repeat funding
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.
88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$266k · 15 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
7
Total granted
$266k
$13k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+44%
+346%
Still filing today
33%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalOther
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
- TSTHIRD STORY6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +44%
- SDSTEP DENVER6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +92%
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- HCHOMEAID COLORADOone grant, 2024 · $8k
- PNPROVIDENCE NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -2%
- FCFLORENCE CRITTENTONone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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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Step Springs
Step Springs is a subsidiary organization of Step Denver and when it opens in 2025 will be the first replication of the Step program. Step is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to…
Housing & Shelter
2
Metro Caring
Metro Caring is Denver's frontline anti-hunger organization.
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3
Next Step Recovery Ministries
Next Step is a 12 month residential program for men recovering from addiction and other life-crippling decisions. We provide mentorship counseling volunteerism and job opportunities.
Human Services
4
Butte Rescue Mission
The Butte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in Jesus's name, offering assistance to those facing homelessness by providing food, shelter and clothing to restore individuals and reunite families, empowering them to reintegrate into…
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5
Birthline of Colorado Inc
Private pregnancy testing, counseling and assistance after birth
Civil Rights
6
Life - Line
1.Life-Line implemented processes beginning with the Department of corrections in-reach and transitioning to community re-entry by providing transitional homes. The processes implemented has allowed Life-Line to begin intaking Individuals…
Arts & Culture
7
The Dc Central Kitchen Inc
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8
Rescue Mission Alliance
We serve the poor and homeless by providing food, shelter, and life changing recovery programs.
Human Services
9
Pueblo Rescue Mission
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
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10
Colorado West Healthcare System
Improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Health
11
The Big Table
Big Table exists to see the lives of those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry transformed by building community and caring for those who are in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks.
Philanthropy
12
Welcome House Inc
Welcome House is committed to providing a high-quality, moral and open residential program to recovering alcoholics and drug-addicted men facing the difficult transition from treatment, incarceration and homelessness to reintegration back…
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is World Central Kitchen Inc. 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, 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$190,157Education$60,000Youth Development$18,000Human Services$17,091Health$14,000International$2,611
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.
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.
The Denver FoundationCO15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 STAKY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through 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: THIRD STORY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841493413 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 THIRD STORY, 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 14 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 Staky Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Staky 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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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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