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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$107kHuman Services$48kHealth$29kHousing & Shelter$27kReligion$22kYouth Development$18kCommunity Improvement$15kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$506k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
CHALLENGE FOUNDATION$10,000
COLORADO HOME AID$6,554
SALVATION ARMY$5,203
IOWA STATE FOUNDATION$5,000
THIRD STORY$3,000
ALBON COLLEGE$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,611
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CRAIG HOSPITAL$2,500
CROSS PURPOSES$2,500
STEP DENVER$2,500
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$2,500
JO ANNE FICKE CANCER FOUNDATION$2,500
HIS LOVE FELLOWSHIP$2,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $3k → 3%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 14 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$250k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-2%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +34%
  • TT
    The Third Story Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +18%
  • SD
    Step Denver
    6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • PN
    PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -2%
  • FC
    FLORENCE CRITTENTON
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Denver Hybrid College

To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.

Education
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
4
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
5
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
6
Caring for Denver Foundation

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.

Health
7
Colorado Village Collaborative

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Mile High United Way Curtis Park

Construct, finance, and own the mile high united way morgridge center for community change.

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9
Colorado State University Foundation

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…

Education
10
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
12
Colorado Christian University

Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO HOME AID: $27,880 · OtherCOLORADO HOME AIDIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $24,000 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYStep Denver: $16,500 · OtherStep DenverFOOD BANK OF ROCKIES: $13,060 · OtherFOOD BANK OF ROCKIESIndividual grant recipient: $12,073 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIS LOVE FELLOWSHIP INC: $12,000 · OtherHIS LOVE FELLOWSHIP INCCHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherCHERRY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC: $7,807 · OtherCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INCQUIET WATERS: $6,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $5,203 · Other+6 more: $5,516 · OtherTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INCALBION COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationALBION COLLEGEIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI…Craig Hospital: $14,000 · HealthCraig Hosp…JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation: $14,000 · HealthJoAnn B Fi…The Third Story Inc: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $14,591 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $2,500 · Human ServicesCROSSPURPOSE: $15,118 · Community ImprovementWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,611 · International
Other$140,039Education$81,000Health$28,000Youth Development$18,000Human Services$17,091Community Improvement$15,118International$2,611

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe Third Story Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetStep Denver: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALBION COLLEGE: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $15,118 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $14,591 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation: $14,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY SHELTER PROVIDERS INC: $7,807 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Craig Hospital ↗
  • Who funds JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Tyl FoundationSchlessman Foundation…Adolph Coors Foundati…Rose Community Founda…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
The Denver FoundationCO16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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