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The Strear Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Strear Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$330kEducation$255kReligion$172kYouth Development$161kCivil Rights$150kHealth$135kArts & Culture$100kEnvironment$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $580k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $651k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHALOM PARK$102,500
WARREN VILLAGE$65,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC$60,875
URBAN PEAK$60,000
INVEST IN KIDS$55,000
WE DONT WASTE$55,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$53,000
EKAR FARM$50,000
DENVER UBRAN GARDENS$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NATIONAL$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE MOUNTAIN STATES$50,000
REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER$45,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$40,000
JEWISH EXPERIENCE$38,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER$35,000
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 (FY24–25, $454k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%SHALOM PARK: $105k → 8%SHALOM PARK: $103k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $100k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $61k → 12%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $20k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $65k → 12%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 34 repeat orgs$874k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
29

Total granted

$1.9M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

32%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $647k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • DJ
    DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $93k · revenue +18%
  • HT
    HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +5%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WC
    World Central Kitchen
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • UO
    University of Denver
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -16%
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
Jewish Community Centers of Denver

Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.

Human Services
2
The Boulder Jewish Community Center

We are a home for community that builds relationships, embraces differences, and embodies what jewish life can be.

Human Services
3
Denver Academy of Torah

Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…

Education
4
Congregation Har Shalom

Har Shalom is an active center of Jewish learning and worship serving all of Northern Colorado. We are intentionally non-denominational and egalitarian, serving a wide diversity of spiritual paths. Our synagogue membership of 200+ families…

Religion
5
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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6
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
7
International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
10
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
11
Slow Food Co-Denver

To create dramatic and lasting change in the food system by reconnecting americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food.

Food & Nutrition
12
Rose Community Foundation

SEE SCHEDULE O. Rose Community Foundation strives to advance inclusive, engaged and equitable Greater Denver communities through values-driven philanthropy. The Foundation envisions a thriving region strengthened by its diversity and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Gathering Place a Refuge for Rebuilding Lives; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

36 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. 36 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
11/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NATIONAL: $125,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NATIONALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE MOUNTAIN STATES: $125,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE MOUNTAIN STATESDenver Jewish Day School: $77,360 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of Metro Denver: $71,000 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $70,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $70,000 · OtherDenver Public Schools Foundation: $65,000 · Other+65 more: $1,307,120 · Other+65 moreSHALOM PARK: $207,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM PARKJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $161,275 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERV…WARREN VILLAGE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INCSO ALL MAY EAT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $92,500 · EducationPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY: $30,000 · EducationTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationSUMMER SCHOLARS: $20,000 · EducationDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $50,000 · EnvironmentCOTTONWOOD INSTITUTE: $45,000 · EnvironmentINVEST IN KIDS: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $37,500 · HealthTHIRD WAY CENTER INC: $30,300 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWEDONTWASTE INC: $55,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,910,480Human Services$453,775Education$167,500Environment$95,000Youth Development$85,000Health$73,800Food & Nutrition$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHALOM PARK: $207,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $161,275 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $92,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $70,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $55,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $53,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEKAR: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCOTTONWOOD INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $35,720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD WAY CENTER INC: $30,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMETRO CARING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSO ALL MAY EAT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSUMMER SCHOLARS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH CONGREGATION OF STEAMBOAT SPRINGS HAR MISHPACHA: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMIZEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds EKAR ↗
  • Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
  • Who funds THIRD WAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Ian and Marsha Garden…Morse Family Foundati…The Chotin Family Fou…JEWISHColoradoMile High United Way …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO24.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Ian and Marsha Gardenswartz Family Foundation · Morse Family Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · JEWISHColorado · Mile High United Way Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Strear Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Strear Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    6report 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 Strear Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Strear Family Foundation Inc 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 89 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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