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Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation

The ASPEN SKIING COMPANY ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the enhancement and protection of the environmental quality of the roaring fork valley region.

$235k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of ASPEN SKIING COMPANY ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $220,156 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $234,682 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,526 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$140k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FARM COLLABORATIVE$21,360
350 COLORADO$20,000
WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$20,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$15,000
RED HILL COUNCIL$13,890
COMMUNITY OFFICE FOR RESOURCE EFFECIENCY$10,000
BASALT EDUCATION FUNDATION$10,000
ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS$10,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT$10,000
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND$10,000
ROARING FORK HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
THE ALLIANCE CENTER$10,000
SAFE PASSAGES ROARING FORK$10,000
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$10,000
BIG PIVOTS$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BIG PIVOTS: $10k → 7%ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $24k → 7%WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST: $23k → 8%ROCKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY RADIO: $10k → 10%WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $20k → 10%CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 11%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $20k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $13k → 12%HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $10k → 15%FERDINAND HAYDEN CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED: $10k → 7%WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $25k → 6%BIG PIVOTS: $10k → 7%ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS: $18k → 7%WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST: $14k → 8%WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $15k → 10%CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 11%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $15k → 12%HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $10k → 15%WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $25k → 6%COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $15k → 7%BASALT EDUCATION FUNDATION: $10k → 7%WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST: $12k → 8%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $12k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $10k → 15%WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $18k → 6%COMMUNITY OFFICE FOR RESOURCE EFFECIENCY: $10k → 7%WESTERN RESOURCES: $13k → 12%CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $40k → 12%WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $15k → 6%FAT CITY FARMERS: $10k → 7%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10k → 12%CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $20k → 12%ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS: $12k → 6%CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $13k → 12%WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $10k → 6%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10k → 12%THE ALLIANCE CENTER: $10k → 12%COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $10k → 6%ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS: $10k → 6%ROARING FORK HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 6%COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $10k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT: $30k → 6%THE FARM COLLABORATIVE: $21k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT: $20k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT: $11k → 6%ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 6%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT: $10k → 6%RED HILL COUNCIL: $14k → 6%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 35 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
35

Total granted

$1.1M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+42%

Still filing today

66%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AC
    ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $101k · revenue +120%
  • WW
    WILDERNESS WORKSHOP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +167%
  • PO
    PROTECT OUR WINTERS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +661%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • IP
    INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • TF
    TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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
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
2
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment
3
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
4
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
5
Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc

Rocky Mountain Field Institute conserves and protects public lands in Southern Colorado through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research.

6
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
7
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
8
Conservation Colorado

Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…

Civil Rights
9
San Juan Citizens Alliance

The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.

Environment
10
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.

Environment
11
Living Rivers

Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…

Environment
12
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Fat City Farmers. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/42
the rest of the field
12%
1,172/9,592

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.

05the grantee network

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $108,500 · OtherCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUNDWILDERNESS WORKSHOP — $99,813 · OtherWILDERNESS WORKSHOPRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers — $56,000 · OtherRoaring Fork Outdoor VolunteersWHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST — $48,500 · OtherWHITE RIVER NATIONAL FORESTWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $45,000 · OtherWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER+45 more — $425,387 · Other+45 moreASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $100,500 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL …PROTECT OUR WINTERS — $71,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS350 COLORADO — $40,000 · Environment350 COLORADOHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $28,500 · EnvironmentHIGH COUNTRY NEWSROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $28,122 · EnvironmentROARING FORK CONSERVANCYCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $27,560 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY OFFICE FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY — $16,520 · Environment+7 more — $52,000 · Environment+7 moreThe Farm Collaborative — $39,600 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationENERGETICS EDUCATION dba Solar Rollers — $14,999 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $49,788 · Recreation & SportsROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RFMBA — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $2,108 · Recreation & SportsTHE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS — $23,400 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY RADIO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS — $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $19,500 · Community Improvement
Other$783,200Environment$384,202Education$77,099Recreation & Sports$57,896Arts & Culture$33,400Youth Development$26,000Community Improvement$19,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $100,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP — $99,813 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $71,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers — $56,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $49,788 over 6y, 0.8% of budget350 COLORADO — $40,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Farm Collaborative — $39,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $28,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $28,122 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $27,560 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS — $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS — $23,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $19,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $17,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY OFFICE FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY — $16,520 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFat City Farmers — $15,190 over 2y, 82% of budgetENERGETICS EDUCATION dba Solar Rollers — $14,999 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetECOFLIGHT — $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANDID — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY RADIO — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetROARING FORK MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION - RFMBA — $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY — $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe 2Forks Club — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSNOWMASS DISCOVERY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $2,108 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
  • Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP
  • Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS
  • Who funds Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers
  • Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE
  • Who funds 350 COLORADO
  • Who funds The Farm Collaborative
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS
  • Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS
  • Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS
  • Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE
  • Who funds NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY OFFICE FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
  • Who funds Fat City Farmers
  • Who funds ENERGETICS EDUCATION dba Solar Rollers
  • Who funds ECOFLIGHT
  • Who funds The Alliance For Collective Action

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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO47.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Our Part co Marsha Soffer · Arches 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 Aspen Skiing Company Environment 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 76 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $248k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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