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Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman

Evergreen, CO · EIN 84-1601007. Reported 88 grants totalling $1,885,215 to 30 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,500median grant
$1,885,215granted, 2021-2025
30recipients, as named on its returns
77%of grantees funded again the next year
$10.6Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
28 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Catholic FoundationGreenwood Village, CO$500,000332023
Arrupe Jesuit High SchoolDenver, CO$269,500552025
All Souls Catholic ParishEnglewood, CO$233,000222025
All Souls SchoolEnglewood, CO$186,715332023
Seeds of Hope Charitable TrustDenver, CO$120,000552025
Boys Hope Girls HopeAurora, CO$85,000442024
All Souls Catholic SchoolEnglewood, CO$80,000222025
Learning AllyPrinceton, NJ$55,000332023
Bella Health & WellnessEnglewood, CO$40,000222025
Colorado Open LandsLakewood, CO$40,000442024
Sacred Heart HouseDenver, CO$37,500552025
Catholic CharitiesDenver, CO$35,000442024
Avodah CollectiveEnglewood, CO$30,000222023
FocusGolden, CO$25,000552025
Catholic SportsDenver, CO$22,500552025
Hope Ignites ColoradoAurora, CO$20,000112025
Camp WojtylaErie, CO$12,500552025
St Sebastian ProjectGreenwood Village, CO$12,500552025
Escuela De GuadalupeDenver, CO$10,000112021
Haven of HopeDenver, CO$10,000442024
Project Angel HeartDenver, CO$10,000442024
Regis Jesuit High SchoolAurora, CO$10,000112021
Warren VillageDenver, CO$10,000112021
Philanthropy RoundtableWashington, DC$7,500552025
Christ in the CityDenver, CO$5,000112025
Creighton UniversityOmaha, NE$5,000112025
Emmaus Catholic HospiceDenver, CO$5,000112025
Little Sisters of the PoorDenver, CO$5,000222022
EndowGreenwood Village, CO$2,500112021
Summit County Library FundFrisco, CO$1,000112025

21 of 30 (70%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 77%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
11 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
9 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Social Science
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$271,000$10,000
202218$462,215$8,750
202317$442,000$5,000
202415$358,000$5,000
202516$352,000$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

96% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Colorado
$1.8M
New Jersey
$55K
District of Columbia
$8K
Nebraska
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc20 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund19 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust16 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation14 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 2225 Island Point, Evergreen, CO, 80439. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 84-1601007 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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