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The Schuck Initiatives at a glance

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The Schuck Initiatives

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$110kPhilanthropy$73kEducation$45kRecreation & Sports$41kYouth Development$33kHousing & Shelter$24kPublic Benefit$10kCommunity Improvement$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–23, $38k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $11k → 9%DIAKONIA: $23k → 9%DIAKONIA: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 10 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$201k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

60%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +3%
  • D
    Diakonia
    2× · 2021–2022 · $27k · revenue +531%
  • KB
    Kingdom Builders Family Life Center
    2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +197%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN EDUCATION ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • VS
    VETERAN SHEEPDOGS OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TC
    The Christian Home For Children Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +68%
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.

1
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
2
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
3
Streets Hope

Street's Hope provides direct services to human trafficking survivors in Colorado. Services including housing assisstance, housing support and a range of behavioral health services.

Human Services
4
Step Springs

Step Springs is a subsidiary organization of Step Denver and when it opens in 2025 will be the first replication of the Step program. Step is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to…

Housing & Shelter
5
Centers for Living Inc

Providing housing and transitional services for the marginalized population coming from homelessness, following rehab, incarceration, or resulting from set-back related to physical or mental health conditions.

Human Services
6
Life House

To work with government & business organizations to improve quality of life for citizens by providing education, training, character & leadership.

Community Improvement
7
Step Denver

Step Denver is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to rebuild their lives through Sobriety, Work, Accountability, and Community. The ultimate goal of the organization is to have its…

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8
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
9
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs

To provide assistance to families experiencing housing instability.

Human Services
10
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Habitat for Humanity for Colorado County

We are a non-denominational Chrisitan housing ministry

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12
Cbol Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Springs Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Speed T&F. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LATCHED AND LOVED INC: $36,000 · OtherLATCHED AND LOVED INCTRIPLE THREAT FITNESS AND ENRICHMENT: $26,000 · OtherTRIPLE THREAT FITNESS AND ENRICHMENTROCKY MOUNTAIN EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN EDUCATION ALLIANCESIGNIFICANT LIFE CHANGE INC: $16,000 · OtherSIGNIFICANT LIFE CHANGE INCVETERAN SHEEPDOGS OF COLORADO: $15,000 · OtherVETERAN SHEEPDOGS OF COLORADOThe Christian Home For Children Inc: $15,000 · OtherThe Christian Home For Children IncChrists Body Inc: $15,000 · OtherChrists Body IncSHEPHERD REVOLUTION LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+5 more: $14,535 · Other+5 moreDiakonia: $27,000 · Human ServicesDiakoniaKingdom Builders Family Life Center: $17,500 · Human ServicesKingdom Builders…THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $10,990 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESC…The New Horizons Foundation Inc: $53,000 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons…PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…SPEED T&F: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsGospel Homes For Women: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DESTINY PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOODSON CENTER: $1,376 · Community Improvement
Other$195,035Human Services$55,490Philanthropy$55,000Education$40,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Housing & Shelter$9,000Youth Development$6,000Community Improvement$1,376

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $53,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDiakonia: $27,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetKingdom Builders Family Life Center: $17,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVETERAN SHEEPDOGS OF COLORADO: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Christian Home For Children Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSPEED T&F: $15,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $10,990 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGospel Homes For Women: $9,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE DESTINY PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetColorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $1,376 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Schuck Initiatives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schuck Initiatives. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Schuck Initiatives?

    Find your warmest path to The Schuck Initiatives through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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