Colorado · Private foundation
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.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $159M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Sturm Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $4.2M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $7.7M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $4.1M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $4.7M | 95% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Museum of Natural History | $5,009,568 | 3 | 7% |
| Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc | $3,741,813 | 5 | 40% |
| National Jewish Health | $2,707,650 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $1,064,500 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Community College System Foundation | $709,739 | 3 | 8% |
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $650,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dsst Public Schools Foundation | $577,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Denver Art Museum | $525,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc | $427,500 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sturm Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Sturm Family Foundation
- How much does Sturm Family Foundation give?
- Sturm Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $4,210,436 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sturm Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (12%).
- Who are Sturm Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Colorado Museum of Natural History ($5.0M), Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc ($3.7M), National Jewish Health ($2.7M).
- Does Sturm Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sturm Family 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 Sturm Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Sturm Family Foundation based?
- Sturm Family Foundation is based in CO.
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