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Steve and Trish Shapiro Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$309k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$306kHealth$171kPhilanthropy$142kHuman Services$43kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$23kCrime & Legal$16kPublic Benefit$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $253,310 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $308,810 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $183k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Colorado Foundation$43,000
Colorado Mountain College Foundation$35,000
Summit Foundation$25,000
Davis Phinney Foundationfor Parkinson's$20,000
Summit Foundation$15,150
Summit Community Care Clinic$15,000
Theatre SilCo$10,000
Summit Community Care Clinic$10,000
AJC Children's Foundation$10,000
Union College$7,500
Sparks Family Offices$6,500
MD Anderson Center$5,000
University of Iowa Foundation$5,000
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc.$5,000
Building Hope Summit County$5,000
02Your 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$501k · 22 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
16

Total granted

$501k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+74%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +76%
  • SC
    SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +53%
  • AC
    AJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • FI
    Family & Intercultural Resource Center
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • F(
    FIRC (Family & Intercultural Resource Center)
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

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

03Your 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.

1
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
2
Summit Health Foundation
Health
3
Summit Foundation
Community Improvement
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
6
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
7
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Peak Health Alliance

Peak health alliance is organized for the purpose of arranging for more cost-effective health insurance and health insurance administrative services for employers with a physical presence in rural colorado and their employees and…

Health
10
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

—
11
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Access Foundation
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Summit Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Md Anderson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Foundation SupportChildhood Cancer SupportCommunity Hospital SystemsEarly Childhood Care CentersCivil Legal ServicesPublic Library SupportFood Pantries and AssistanceAnimal Rescue and ShelterGovernment Accountability &…Addiction & Mental Health T…Public School District Foun…Affordable Housing Construc…Private Grantmaking Foundat…Christian Outreach Ministri…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr12%39%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,385

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $79,600 · OtherCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research — $35,000 · OtherThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson…DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATIONUnion College — $25,000 · OtherUnion CollegeFamily & Intercultural Resource Center — $20,000 · OtherFamily & Intercultural Resource CenterFIRC (Family & Intercultural Resource Center) — $15,000 · OtherUniversity of Iowa Foundation — $10,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $10,000 · Other+19 more — $58,500 · Other+19 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $160,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUN…DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $12,160 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI…THE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $5,500 · EducationTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $141,550 · PhilanthropyTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATIONMD Anderson Foundation — $5,000 · PhilanthropySUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC — $40,000 · HealthBuilding Hope Summit County — $7,525 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthAJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO — $17,500 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Social Science
Other$288,100Education$187,660Philanthropy$146,550Health$53,525Human Services$36,000Arts & Culture$30,000Social Science$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $141,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $79,600 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE DILLON FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA THEATRE SILCO — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $12,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBuilding Hope Summit County — $7,525 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Habitat for Humanity — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMD Anderson Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Education Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESCUE GROUP INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFood For Thought Denver — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummit County Child Care Resource & Referral Agency — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Summit FoundationXcel Energy FoundationEl Pomar FoundationLloyd Family Foundati…The Denver FoundationMile High United Way …F Cubed FoundationBrunetti Family Chari…The Colorado Health F…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Summit Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Lloyd Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · F Cubed Foundation · Brunetti Family Charitable Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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