Colorado · Private foundation
Staky 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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $506k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Staky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $63k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $47k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $46k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $46k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $44k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Challenge Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Third Story Inc | $18,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Step Denver | $16,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Crosspurpose | $15,118 | 6 | 0% |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $14,591 | 6 | 0% |
| Craig Hospital | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation | $14,000 | 6 | 2% |
| His Love Fellowship Inc | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Community Shelter Providers Inc | $7,807 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Challenge Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Third Story Inc | $18,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Step Denver | $16,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Crosspurpose | $15,118 | 6 | 0% |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $14,591 | 6 | 0% |
| Craig Hospital | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation | $14,000 | 6 | 2% |
| His Love Fellowship Inc | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Community Shelter Providers Inc | $7,807 | 1 | 1% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $2,611 | 1 | n/a |
| PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| High Line Canal Conservancy | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Staky Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Tyl Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Staky Foundation
- How much does Staky Foundation give?
- Staky Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $66,483 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Staky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Human Services (16%), Health (10%).
- Who are Staky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Challenge Foundation Inc ($60k), The Third Story Inc ($18k), Step Denver ($17k).
- Does Staky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Staky Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Staky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Tyl Foundation.
- Where is Staky Foundation based?
- Staky Foundation is based in CO.
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