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Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley
To provide a permanent entity to manage resources to help build community for the benefit of all residents of the gunnison watershed.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $941k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,319
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,330
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 72
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $941k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $2.7M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $329k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $548k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $601k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Canyon Fire Station Inc | $544,452 | 1 | 57% |
| The Center for the Arts | $356,640 | 6 | 4% |
| Gunnison Council for the Arts | $344,330 | 6 | 7% |
| Gunnison Country Food Pantry Inc | $282,175 | 6 | 7% |
| Gunnison Valley Health Foundation | $224,927 | 5 | 16% |
| Crested Butte State of Mind | $217,043 | 6 | 16% |
| Six Points Evaluation and Training Inc | $191,317 | 5 | 9% |
| Mountain Roots Food Project | $188,860 | 6 | 6% |
| Gunnison Watershed School District Re1-J | $167,171 | 6 | n/a |
| Project Hope of Gunnison Valley | $160,656 | 3 | 12% |
Show all 96 grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($359k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Telluride Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Dea Family Foundation · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock
How this is measured
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About Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley
- How much does Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley give?
- Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley reported 46 itemized grants totaling $941,406, out of $1,071,473 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 72 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Taylor Canyon Fire Station Inc ($544k), The Center for the Arts ($357k), Gunnison Council for the Arts ($344k).
- Does Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Telluride Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Rocky Mountain Health Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley based?
- Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley is based in CO.
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