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The Strohm Link Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$267k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Recreation & Sports$564kEducation$352kEmployment$123kInternational$100kFood & Nutrition$90kHuman Services$90kArts & Culture$82kPhilanthropy$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT - ROCKY MOUNTAIN$50,000
COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE$25,000
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$20,000
ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE$20,000
CHANCE SPORTS$15,000
DANIELS FUND$11,592
COLORADO BUSINESS HALL OF FAME$10,000
PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$7,500
WELLSPRING COMMUNITY$5,075
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $25k → 3%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $8k → 3%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $5k → 3%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $5k → 3%KENZI'S CAUSES: $11k → 8%KENZI'S CAUSES: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
IL
IA
PA
CA
CO
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+10%

Still filing today

84%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TW
    THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $509k · revenue +27%
  • WB
    WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    COE COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DEER TRAIL
    one grant, 2020 · $39k
  • CM
    Colorado Museum of Natural History
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • C
    CROSSPURPOSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +73%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
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
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

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

Community Improvement
5
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
6
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
7
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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8
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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9
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Daniels Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr13%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr13%55%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
15%
10,291/68,439

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $508,900 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATIONCHANCE SPORTS — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsESCUELA DE GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $157,500 · OtherESCUELA DE GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc — $54,000 · OtherSt Anne's Episcopal School IncCOLORADO BUSINESS HALL OF FAME — $50,250 · OtherCOLORADO BUSINESS HALL OF FAMEFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DEER TRAIL — $38,804 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DEER TRAILCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherDANIELS FUND — $21,014 · OtherCraig Hospital Foundation — $40,000 · OtherCraig Hospital FoundationWELLSPRING COMMUNITY — $42,575 · OtherWELLSPRING COMMUNITYCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Other+23 more — $134,877 · Other+23 moreCOE COLLEGE — $111,050 · EducationCOE COLLE…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $17,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Trinity University — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT — $120,000 · Employment+1 more — $2,500 · EmploymentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $100,000 · InternationalDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $58,000 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural History — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA COLORADO — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $90,000 · Food & Nutrition
Recreation & Sports$543,900Other$594,020Education$135,550Employment$122,500International$100,000Arts & Culture$91,500Food & Nutrition$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION — $508,900 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT — $120,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCOE COLLEGE — $111,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $58,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc — $54,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING COMMUNITY — $42,575 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHANCE SPORTS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDANIELS FUND — $21,014 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS — $19,342 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $15,190 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCherry Creek Touchdown Club Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT 100 METRO DENVER — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTrinity University — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER TOGETHER — $3,750 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 1 27 — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASALT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOLORADO WOMENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $2,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWLOHA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN WITH A CAUSE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationDaniels FundThe Anschutz Foundati…Mile High United Way …Rose Community Founda…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Anschutz Family Found…Gates Family Foundati…Ima FoundationEl Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.1× affinity15 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 · Daniels Fund · The Anschutz Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Ima Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health 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 Strohm Link 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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