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The William Kistler Coors Foundation at a glance

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The William Kistler Coors Foundation

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.

$193k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$130kEducation$130kEnvironment$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kAnimals$48kYouth Development$23k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$60,000
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$20,000
VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$15,000
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC$15,000
THE COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND$15,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE$10,000
COLORADO OPEN LANDS$10,000
COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$10,000
YOUTH SEEN$7,500
LHON COLLECTIVE$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $15k → 14%LHON COLLECTIVE: $5k → 11%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $15k → 14%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 7%COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $10k → 7%THE COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL - OUTWARD BOUND WILD: $10k → 12%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10k → 14%LHON COLLECTIVE: $5k → 11%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $13k → 14%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 7%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $10k → 7%THE COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10k → 12%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 7%COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $10k → 7%THE COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10k → 12%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 7%COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $5k → 7%THE COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 10 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$450k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GD
    GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +463%
  • MF
    MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN LANDS
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
Colo Foundation for Water Education

Water education colorado ensures coloradans are informed on water issues and equipped to make decisions that guide our state to a sustainable water future.

Environment
3
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado

Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.

Recreation & Sports
4
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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5
Colorado Wildlife Federation Inc

Educate and advocate for wildlife management regulations and policy decisions, educate students and families about colorado's ecosystems and wildlife species in programs. we also offer the program becoming an outdoors woman to help women…

Animals
6
Colorado Farm Bureau

To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.

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7
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
8
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
9
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
10
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
11
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education
12
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Fourteeners Initiative; the most unlike its peers is Youth Seen. 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

12 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $60,000 · OtherGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR T…CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO F…VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $45,000 · EnvironmentVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND…COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $40,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND…COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDSCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $60,000 · HealthCOLORADO CENTER …LHON COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · HealthLHON COLLECTIVEMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $47,500 · AnimalsMERCY FOR A…COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsYouth Seen: $22,500 · Youth Development
Other$110,000Education$100,000Environment$95,000Health$70,000Animals$47,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Youth Development$22,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Seen: $22,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLHON COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 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.

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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Denver FoundationCO15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 William Kistler Coors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William Kistler Coors Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 William Kistler Coors Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The William Kistler Coors Foundation 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 12 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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