· Private foundation
The Mistler 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 $10k16 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IAM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $100,000 |
| THE NARRATIVE ENNEAGRAM | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER | $100,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN COLORADO | $50,000 |
| MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JOURNEY TO NEW LIFE | $25,000 |
| CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OLD MISSION METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FINCA | $25,000 |
| ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $680k · revenue +77%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $291k · revenue +58%
- IIINVEST IN KIDS5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +47%
Funded once
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +45%- FFFOUNDATION FOR CO COMMUNITY COLLEGESone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SAST ANDREW UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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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…
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.
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To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Highline Canal Company. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 66 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENNEAGRAM STUDIES IN THE NARRATIVE TRADITION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL EVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds I AM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Journey to New Life INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHROOTS ↗
- Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Geography Of Hope ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS TRAINING SPECIALISTS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ESALEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Ima Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
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 The Mistler 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.
- Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.