· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $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 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| JO ANNE FICKE CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| STEP DENVER | $2,500 |
| HIS LOVE FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 3%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +34%
- TTThe Third Story Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +18%
- SDStep Denver6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- CCCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
- PNPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE 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.
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.
To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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…
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
To address denver's mental health and substance misuse needs by growing community informed solutions and turning the community's desire to help into action.
Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…
Construct, finance, and own the mile high united way morgridge center for community change.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Third Story Inc ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
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 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.