How much does The Solich Fund give?

The Solich Fund reported 36 grants totaling $5,660,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Solich Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (27%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are The Solich Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($12M), University of Colorado Foundation ($4.3M), Colorado Uplift Inc ($1.3M).

Does The Solich Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Solich Fund 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 Solich Fund?

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

Where is The Solich Fund based?

The Solich Fund is based in CO.

The Solich Fund

The Solich Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Solich Fund

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.

$5.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$13MEducation$7.7MPhilanthropy$3.3MRecreation & Sports$1.5MYouth Development$1.4MPublic Benefit$330kArts & Culture$308kPublic Safety & Disaster$270kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k17 grants · $295k
$50k–250k10 grants · $830k
$250k+4 grants · $4.5M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDA	$3,000,000
COLORADO UPLIFT	$1,010,000
CENTRAL DENVER CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOO	$250,000
POST CHAPEL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION	$250,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE	$200,000
COLORADO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY	$150,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN VOICE	$100,000
US OLYMPIC PARALYMPIC MUSEUM	$80,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS	$50,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDA	$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$50,000
ACCESS OPPORTUNITY	$50,000
COLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION	$50,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE	$50,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE	$35,000

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 (FY21–25, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$24M · 34 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24M

$490k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+0%

Still filing today

82%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

CH
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
6× · 2020–2025 · $12M · revenue +26%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +76%
CU
COLORADO UPLIFT INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +41%

Funded once

PF
PIVOT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue 0%
HM
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATI
one grant, 2024 · $75k
MP
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue -10%

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 Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

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

Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy

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

Colorado Academy

Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy

Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—

College World Golf Championships Foundation Inc

Our mission is to preserve the integrity of college golf, recognizing that our student-athletes not only excel in the sport but also become significant contributors to society. by hosting exceptional ncaa di golf championships, we honor…

Recreation & Sports

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 67 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)

52/53

Grantees still filing

35/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$12,247,500Education$7,763,500Community Improvement$2,905,194Other$3,502,530Recreation & Sports$1,042,685Philanthropy$760,000Human Services$395,000

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 FoundationCO27.6× affinity13 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 · Daniels Fund · Pema Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Richmond American Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Ross R and Candy L Bhappu Family Foundation · Cross H Foundation · Dimond Family 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 Solich Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Solich Fund. 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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How do I get to The Solich Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Solich Fund 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.

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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

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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