How much does The Mistler Family Foundation give?

The Mistler Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $958,690 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Mistler Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Youth Development (10%), Environment (8%).

Who are The Mistler Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kansas State University Foundation ($680k), Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition ($450k), Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc ($291k).

Does The Mistler Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mistler 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 The Mistler Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.

Where is The Mistler Family Foundation based?

The Mistler Family Foundation is based in KS.

The Mistler Family Foundation

The Mistler Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$959k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.6MYouth Development$409kEnvironment$327kHousing & Shelter$311kHealth$294kPublic Benefit$291kHuman Services$236kInternational$217kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $58k
$10k–50k19 grants · $351k
$50k–250k7 grants · $550k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
IAM FOUNDATION	$100,000
INVEST IN KIDS	$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER	$100,000
THE NARRATIVE ENNEAGRAM	$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
JOURNEY TO NEW LIFE	$25,000
ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT	$25,000
KSU FOUNDATION	$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION	$25,000
FINCA	$25,000
OLD MISSION METHODIST CHURCH	$25,000
CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 47 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+19%

Still filing today

70%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentSocial ScienceOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

KS
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $680k · revenue +77%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $291k · revenue +58%
II
INVEST IN KIDS
5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +47%

Funded once

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +45%
FF
FOUNDATION FOR CO COMMUNITY COLLEGES
one grant, 2020 · $25k
K
KCPT
one grant, 2021 · $5k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Aia Colorado

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…

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Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

Education Commission of the States

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…

Education

Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc

To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy

Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

33/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,457,000Other$1,412,584Youth Development$327,500Health$288,060Human Services$205,000International$205,000Social Science$201,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Denver FoundationCO23.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mistler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mistler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home