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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. We support projects that promote environmental education and research; seek to reduce the impacts of climate change; foster responsible stewardship of our…

$235k
Granted FY2023
19
Itemized grants FY2023
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$220k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$21,360
Organizations funded a year
11 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$140k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202319$220k32%
FY202215$178k20%
FY202111$110k45%
FY202025$274k60%
FY201923$157k43%
FY201827$227k41%
FY201726$215kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Environment$900kEducation$139kYouth Development$61kRecreation & Sports$56kArts & Culture$53kFood & Nutrition$52kCrime & Legal$41kCommunity Improvement$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$108,5004n/a
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies$100,50070%
Wilderness Workshop$99,81372%
Protect Our Winters$71,00071%
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers$56,00064%
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative$49,78861%
350 Colorado$40,00042%
The Farm Collaborative$39,60032%
High Country News$28,50040%
Roaring Fork Conservancy$28,12222%
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All grantees of Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$108,5004n/a
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies$100,50070%
Wilderness Workshop$99,81372%
Protect Our Winters$71,00071%
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers$56,00064%
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative$49,78861%
350 Colorado$40,00042%
The Farm Collaborative$39,60032%
High Country News$28,50040%
Roaring Fork Conservancy$28,12222%
Colorado Outward Bound School$27,56030%
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps$26,00030%
The Arts Campus at Willits$23,40030%
The Buddy Program Inc$20,0002n/a
Big Pivots$20,0002n/a
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$20,00030%
Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc$20,00020%
Western Colorado Alliance$19,50031%
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc$17,50033%
Community Office for Resource Efficiency$16,52020%
Fat City Farmers$15,190282%
ENERGETICS EDUCATION dba Solar Rollers$14,99932%
Red Hill Council$13,8901n/a
Ecoflight$11,00031%
Colorado Water Trust$10,00021%
Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools$10,0001n/a
Trout Unlimited Inc$10,00010%
Candid$10,00020%
The Alliance For Collective Action$10,00011%
Rocky Mountain Community Radio$10,000121%
Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association - Rfmba$6,00021%
Middle Colorado Watershed Council$6,0002n/a
Independence Pass Foundation$6,00032%
The 2Forks Club$5,00013%
Aspen Valley Land Trust$5,00010%
Citizens for a Healthy Community$5,00016%
Lower Valley Trails Group$5,0001n/a
Synergy Ecological Restoration Inc$5,0001n/a
Pauline S Schneegas Wildlife Founda$4,0001n/a
Snowmass Discovery Inc$3,00012%
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc$2,50010%
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc$2,10810%

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($379k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetConservation Colorado Education Fund: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Rocky Mountain School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetColorado Water Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCandid: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRocky Mountain Community Radio: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetRoaring Fork Mountain Bike Association - Rfmba: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIndependence Pass Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe 2Forks Club: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAspen Valley Land Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCitizens for a Healthy Community: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Aspen Community Found…Colorado Gives Founda…Western Colorado Comm…PatagoniaorgAspen Business Center…Brady FoundationAlpenglow FoundationGates Family Foundati…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationOur Part co Marsha So…Arches Foundation
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

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.

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About Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation

How much does Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation give?
Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $220,156, out of $234,682 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (65%), Education (10%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Conservation Colorado Education Fund ($109k), Aspen Center for Environmental Studies ($101k), Wilderness Workshop ($100k).
Does Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation based?
Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation is based in CO.

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 76 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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