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Charitable Foundation of Vail

The primary activity is to raise and distribute funds through the use of member volunteers in support of local and national charitable organizations that provide the ideals of rotary international.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$50kHuman Services$30kEnvironment$22kPhilanthropy$21kEducation$15kInternational$12kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $25,144, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,988 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,844 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$926k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MY FUTURE PATHWAYS$7,644
FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES$7,500
LITERACY PROJECT$5,000
VAIL ALLIANCE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES: $8k → 7%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $8k → 7%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $5k → 7%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $5k → 7%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Eagle River Valley Childcare

Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.

Human Services
2
Education Foundation of Eagle Cnty

The education foundation of eagle county (efec) is committed to education and students intellectual and emotional growth through equitable access to in-school enrichment programs, mental health supports, and efforts to recognize and retain…

Education
3
The Elway Foundation
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4
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…

Health
5
Ute Springs Experiential Learning Center

Ute Springs Experiential Learning Center is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization whosemission is to enhance social-emotional learning through increased self-awareness,social-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, and…

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6
Epicpromise Employee Foundation

The EpicPromise Foundation supports Vail Resorts employees and their dependents in times of need through emergency financial assistance and educational grants.

Philanthropy
7
Evans Scholars Foundation - Colorado

Educational

Education
8
Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation

Swiftly helping those in need in Eagle County through financial assistance.

Philanthropy
9
Vail Mountain School

We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.

Education
10
Environmental Learning for Kids

Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.

Youth Development
11
Early Childhood Partners Inc

Early childhood education & support: to educate, cultivate and integrate all who care for young children by supporting families and early learning environments in our community so that every child can thrive.

Human Services
12
Vail Valley Partnership

Our mission is focused around five primary goals: building communities to which residents, visitors and investors are attracted; promoting the communities; striving to ensure future prosperity via a pro-business climate; representing the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is YOUTHPOWER365; the most unlike its peers is Foresight Ski Guides Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $20,250 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYEOS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherEOS INTERNATIONALEDWARDS ROTARY CLUB: $7,765 · OtherEDWARDS ROTARY CLUBROTARY CLUB OF DENVER SOUTHWEST: $6,900 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF DENVER SOUTHWESTROTARY CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $5,500 · OtherROTARY CLUB INTERNATIONALSTONE CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,200 · OtherSTONE CREEK CHARTER SCHOOLVAIL ALLIANCE: $5,000 · OtherVAIL ALLIANCEYOUTHPOWER365: $22,500 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,750 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUN…MY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC: $17,950 · Human ServicesMY FUTURE PATHWAYS …FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFORESIGHT SKI GUIDE…Vail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesVail Valley Charita…SUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY: $10,000 · HealthThe Cycle Effect: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLITERACY PROJECT EC VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY: $5,000 · EducationStone Creek Elementary School: $5,000 · EducationTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 · InternationalEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $5,000 · Environment
Other$60,615Philanthropy$43,250Human Services$30,450Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$10,000International$6,000Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $22,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC: $17,950 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStone Creek Elementary School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…United Way of Eagle R…Vail Valley CaresEl Pomar FoundationRocky Mountain Health…The Colorado Health F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Eagle River Valley · Vail Valley Cares · El Pomar Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charitable Foundation of Vail funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charitable Foundation of Vail. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    8report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Charitable Foundation of Vail?

    Find your warmest path to Charitable Foundation of Vail through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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