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Sturm 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH (NJH) | $1,000,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH (NJH) | $600,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE (DMNS) | $596,399 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE (DMNS) | $298,419 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION (UNIVCOFOUND) | $250,000 |
| JUDAISM YOUR WAY (JYW-OPERMM) | $165,000 |
| DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (DSST) | $150,000 |
| ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (ACCF) | $135,930 |
| STRIVE PREPARATORY SCHOOLS (STRIVE) | $100,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (SAINT) | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF DENVER (CHILDREN) | $100,000 |
| JUDAISM YOUR WAY (JYW-ENDOWMEN) | $89,930 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (UNIDEN) | $80,000 |
| ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (ACCF) | $74,930 |
| JUDAISM YOUR WAY (JYW-ENDOWMEN) | $59,094 |
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 (FY22–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k 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
- CMColorado Museum of Natural History3× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +12%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH4× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +13%- CCCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $710k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
- DBDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INCone grant, 2021 · $650k · revenue -9%
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.
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…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Denver public schools foundation is a catalyst for change in dps.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Metropolitan state university of denver foundation, inc is a non-profit corporation organized to promote the general welfare and development of the metropolitan state university of denver through strategic planning, fundraising and…
Dsst public schools transforms urban public education by eliminating educational inequity and preparing all students for success in college and the 21st century.
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rooted and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 71 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 Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Aurora Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
- Who funds KIPP Colorado Schools ↗
- Who funds Strive Preparatory Schools ↗
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: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · University of Denver · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado · Gary Philanthropy
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 Sturm Family 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.