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Roof F T Char

Saint Louis, MO · EIN 84-6016684. Reported 160 grants totalling $363,900 to 60 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,200median grant
$363,900granted, 2021-2025
60recipients, as named on its returns
80%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,762,081assets, 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. Roof F T Char 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 $2,200. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,100 and $2,250; the smallest was $1,800 and the largest $6,900. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
155 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
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
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$26,550442025
Colorado State University FoundationFort Collins, CO$11,150442025
Aims Community College FoundationGreeley, CO$10,650552025
Colorado Christian UniversityLakewood, CO$10,650552025
Colorado CollegeColorado Springs, CO$10,650552025
Colorado Mesa University FoundationGrand Junciton, CO$10,650552025
Colorado Mountain College Foundation IncGlenwood Springs, CO$10,650552025
Denver SeminaryLittleton, CO$10,650552025
Fort Lewis College FoundationDurango, CO$10,650552025
Iliff School of TheologyDenver, CO$10,650552025
Lamar Community College FoundationLamar, CO$10,650552025
Morgan Community CollegeFort Morgan, CO$10,650552025
Naropa UniversityBoulder, CO$10,650552025
Otero Junior CollegeLa Junta, CO$10,650552025
Pueblo Community College FoundationPueblo, CO$10,650552025
Adams State UniversityAlamosa, CO$8,850442025
Arapahoe Community College Foundation inLittleton, CO$8,850442025
Colorado School of Mines FoundationGolden, CO$8,850442025
Community College of Aurora FoundationAurora, CO$8,850442025
Community College of Denver FoundationDenver, CO$8,850442025
Denver Foundation IncPrinceton, WV$8,850442025
Nazarene Bible CollegeColorado Springs, CO$8,850442025
Red Rocks Community College FoundationLakewood, CO$8,850442025
Regis UniversityDenver, CO$8,850442025
Colorado Northwestern Community CollegeRangely, CO$6,600332025
Front Range Community College FoundationWestminster, CO$6,600332025
University of Northern Colorado FoundatiGreeley, CO$6,600332025
Northeastern Junior CollegeSterling, CO$6,550332024
Trinidad State Junior CollegeTrinidad, CO$6,100332023
Regents of the UniversityDenver, CO$5,400112021
Pikes Peak State College Foundation IncColorado Springs, CO$4,550222025
Trinidad State College FoundationTrinidad, CO$4,550222025
Colorado State Universitypueblo FoundatiPueblo, CO$4,300222023
Pikes Peak Community CollegeColorado Springs, CO$4,300222023
Western Colorado University FoundationGunnison, CO$4,300222023
Northeastern Junior College FoundationSterling, CO$2,300112025
Western State Colorado UniversityGunnison, CO$2,300112025
Colorado Northwestern Community College FoundationRangely, CO$2,250112024
Colorado State University-Pueblo FoundationPueblo, CO$2,250112024
Front Range Community College Foundation for Educ ExcellenceWestminster, CO$2,250112024
University of Northern Colorado Foundation IncGreeley, CO$2,250112024
Western State Colorado University FoundationGunnison, CO$2,250112024
Adams State College FoundationAlamosa, CO$1,800112021
Arapahoe Community CollegeLittleton, CO$1,800112021
Colorado Northwestern Comm ColRangely, CO$1,800112021
Colorado School of Mines Fdn IncGolden, CO$1,800112021
Colorado SeminaryLittleton, CO$1,800112021
Colorado State University FndnFort Collins, CO$1,800112021
Colorado State University-PuebloPueblo, CO$1,800112021
Community College Aurora FoundationAurora, CO$1,800112021
Community College of DenverDenver, CO$1,800112021
Front Range Comm College FoundationWestminster, CO$1,800112021
Metropolitan State College of DenverDenver, CO$1,800112021
Nazarine Bible CollegeColorado Springs, CO$1,800112021
Northeastern Junior College FdnSterling, CO$1,800112021
Pikes Peak Community College FdnColorado Springs, CO$1,800112021
Red Rocks Community College FndLakewood, CO$1,800112021
Regis Univ Office of Gift PlanningDenver, CO$1,800112021
University Northern ColoradoGreeley, CO$1,800112021
Western State Colorado FoundationGunnison, CO$1,800112021

34 of 60 (57%) 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 80%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 78 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.

Education
73 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202133$63,000$1,800
202232$74,800$2,200
202332$71,400$2,100
202432$76,500$2,250
202531$78,200$2,300

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

98% 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
$355K
West Virginia
$9K

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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.

Daniels Fund22 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc21 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund21 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation21 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc17 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation15 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,200. 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.

Related guides

Foundations funding education in ColoradoEvery funder in this group

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Roof F T Char'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: Po Box 505 Mac H0006-092, Saint Louis, MO, 63166. 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 84-6016684 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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