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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 you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192025.

Philanthropy$43kHuman Services$30kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$10kEducation$10kInternational$6kEnvironment$5kOther$61k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $25,144 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $96,988 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,844 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.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$926k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MY FUTURE PATHWAYS$7,644
FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES$7,500
VAIL ALLIANCE$5,000
LITERACY PROJECT$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Your 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 your 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

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.

03Your 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.

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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
Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
Eagle County Junior Livestock Sales Commission

To prepare young people to make a positive impact in their communities and the world

Education
5
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
6
The Elway Foundation
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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
8
Evans Scholars Foundation - Colorado

Educational

Education
9
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
10
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…

11
Environmental Learning for Kids

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

Youth Development
12
Eagle Valley Child Care Association

The eagle valley child care association aims to provide high quality early learning programs to the children of eagle county.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is YOUTHPOWER365 and the most unlike its peers is Stone Creek Elementary School. 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 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. 11 of the 18 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 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
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.

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.

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

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 Charitable Foundation of Vail 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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, 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.

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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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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