Colorado · Private foundation
Stelter 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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $110k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Stelter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 10 | $8k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $15k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $7k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $11k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Church of Estes Park | $5,283 | 5 | n/a |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,231 | 6 | n/a |
| Community Christian Legal Aid | $4,086 | 4 | 2% |
| Redeeming Justice Network | $1,121 | 1 | 0% |
| Students for Life of America Inc | $900 | 4 | 0% |
| Angel Reach | $785 | 2 | 0% |
| State Bar of Texas | $700 | 2 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Bar Association | $575 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ezra Project Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ratio Christi Inc | $450 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Church of Estes Park | $5,283 | 5 | n/a |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,231 | 6 | n/a |
| Community Christian Legal Aid | $4,086 | 4 | 2% |
| Redeeming Justice Network | $1,121 | 1 | 0% |
| Students for Life of America Inc | $900 | 4 | 0% |
| Angel Reach | $785 | 2 | 0% |
| State Bar of Texas | $700 | 2 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Bar Association | $575 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ezra Project Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ratio Christi Inc | $450 | 3 | 0% |
| Twelfth Step Ministry Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $365 | 4 | 0% |
| Christianity Today International | $218 | 2 | 0% |
| Museum of the Bible | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Reasons to Believe | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Jews for Jesus | $95 | 2 | n/a |
| Faith and Freedom Coalition Inc | $76 | 2 | 0% |
| Citizens United | $65 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Art Center of Estes Park | $50 | 2 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $25 | 1 | n/a |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | $11 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stelter 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Stelter Foundation
- How much does Stelter Foundation give?
- Stelter Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $8,083 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Stelter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Crime & Legal (13%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Stelter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Christian Church of Estes Park ($5k), Compassion International Incorporated ($4k), Community Christian Legal Aid ($4k).
- Does Stelter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stelter 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 Stelter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Stelter Foundation based?
- Stelter Foundation is based in CO.
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