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Noel Barrett Shuler Foundation

Omaha, NE · EIN 82-2650150. Reported 36 grants totalling $5,382,340 to 15 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$100,000median grant
$5,382,340granted, 2021-2024
15organizations funded
89%of grantees funded again the next year
$29.2Massets, 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. Noel Barrett Shuler Foundation 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 $100,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $75,000 and $200,000; the smallest was $5,894 and the largest $581,888. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

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

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Colorado FFA FoundationGreeley, CO$1,190,000442024
Respite Care IncFort Collins, CO$800,000222024
Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer CountyFort Collins, CO$619,000332024
Fort Collins Habitat for HumanityFort Collins, CO$500,000442024
Loveland Habitat for HumanityLoveland, CO$490,892332023
Front Range Community College FoundationWestminster, CO$400,000442024
CASA of Larimar CountyFt Collins, CO$350,000442024
Childsafe ColoradoFort Collins, CO$242,640332024
Children's Speech & Reading CenterFort Collins, CO$240,000112022
Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoFort Collins, CO$200,000112021
Neighbor to NeighborFort Collins, CO$150,000112024
KidspakLoveland, CO$100,000112024
Denver Art Museum IncDenver, CO$50,000112024
Rocky Mountain FoundationArvada, CO$43,914332024
3 Hopeful HeartsFort Collins, CO$5,894112021

9 of 15 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 89%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Youth Development
7 grants
Housing & Shelter
5 grants
Crime & Legal
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20217$1,392,782$165,000
20229$1,324,300$102,000
20239$1,323,635$100,000
202411$1,341,623$100,000

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

Fort Collins, CO
$2.8M
Greeley, CO
$1.2M
Loveland, CO
$591K
Westminster, CO
$400K
Ft Collins, CO
$350K
Denver, CO
$50K
Arvada, CO
$44K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Colorado Gives Foundation11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of Northern9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsUnited Way of Larimer County6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $100,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 Noel Barrett Shuler Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1620 Dodge St - Stop 8145, Omaha, NE, 68197. 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 82-2650150 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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