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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 FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHealth$722kPublic Safety & Disaster$580kFood & Nutrition$502kEducation$445kHuman Services$375kYouth Development$293kRecreation & Sports$287kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $941,406, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,071,473 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $130,067 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $560k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $268k
$13,319
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY$77,330
CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST$70,850
GUNNISON ARTS CENTER$62,433
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$57,000
PROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY$42,801
KBUT COMMUNITY RADIO$41,010
GUNNISON SANCTUARY HOUSING INC$41,000
SIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING$37,700
MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT$36,099
GUNNISON WATERSHED SCHOOL DISTRICT$34,137
GUNNISON VALLEY MENTORS$29,349
LIVING JOURNEYS$25,251
GUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG$24,955
Individual grant recipient$22,224
GUNNISON TOUGH$20,645
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $688k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $64k → 7%SIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING: $122k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $96k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $77k → 10%PARTNERS OF DELTA MONTROSE AND OURA: $40k → 12%TELLURIDE SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB IN: $15k → 7%SIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING: $38k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $34k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 10%Six Points Eval & Training: $15k → 10%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $15k → 10%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $15k → 10%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $14k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY CENTER: $12k → 10%Tenderfoot Child & Family Dev: $10k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY CENTER: $10k → 10%Six Points Evaluation & Training Inc: $10k → 10%SIX POINTS EVALUATION & TRAINING: $7k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 10%PARADISE PLACE SCHOOL: $56k → 10%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $8k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 38 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
59

Total granted

$3.8M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

82%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GC
    Gunnison Council for the Arts
    6× · 2020–2025 · $344k · revenue +132%
  • GC
    GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $282k · revenue +75%
  • GV
    GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +641%

Funded once

  • TC
    TAYLOR CANYON FIRE STATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $544k · revenue -98% · 57% of their budget
  • CO
    CASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $72k · revenue -61%
  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Gunnison Creative District

The Gunnison Creative district strengthens and enlivens Gunnison by building community connections,encouraging economic activity, and highlighting our community?s identity, through the flourishing presence ofcreative industries and…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
4
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
5
Routt County Riders

Routt County Riders advocates to implement positive change for cyclists in Northwest Colorado.

Education
6
Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association Inc

Build, maintain, and advocate for sustainable mountain biking trails in western colorado.

Unclassified
7
Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association

The VVMTA's mission is to connect our coummunity to the outdoors through sustainable recreation. The VVMTA advocates for soft surface trails, manages trail stewardship programs, maintains and builds trails, coordinates and trains…

Environment
8
Friends of the Dillon Ranger District

To engage our community and support the US Forest Service's Dillon Ranger District in stewardship through: adult and youth education and diverse volunteer programs, to preserve and enhance our public lands.

Environment
9
Glenwood Springs Chamber Foundation

To support and advance the general welfare and prosperity of the greater glenwood springs, co area so that its citizens and all areas of the community may prosper and lessen the burden of local and state governments. the organization also…

Community Improvement
10
Gunnison-Crested Butte Association of Realtors Inc

None

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11
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.

Environment
12
Theatre Aspen

Entertain, enlighten, enrich, educate and challenge the residents and visitors of the roaring fork valley through professional quality theatrical productions, new play development initiatives and a broad spectrum of educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Hope of Gunnison Valley; the most unlike its peers is Public Policy Forum of Crested Butt. 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

87 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. 87 of the 113 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/87
Grantees still filing
35/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUNNISON WATERSHED SCHOOL DISTRICT RE1-J: $167,171 · OtherGUNNISON WATERSHED SCHOOL DISTRICT RE1-JPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY: $160,656 · OtherPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEYGUNNISON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALT: $120,256 · OtherGunnison Cnty Health & Human: $85,500 · OtherGunnison Sanctuary Housing Inc: $90,465 · OtherCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $160,500 · OtherCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST+63 more: $1,663,455 · Other+63 moreTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $356,640 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THE …Gunnison Council for the Arts: $344,330 · Arts & CultureGunnison Council fo…CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO: $101,960 · Arts & CultureCRESTED BUTTE MOUNT…CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $47,092 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH FORK VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $161,404 · Arts & Culture+7 moreGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC: $282,175 · Human ServicesGUNNISON COUNT…SIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING INC: $191,317 · Human ServicesSIX POINTS EVA…HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $103,400 · Human ServicesHISPANIC AFFAI…SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC): $63,705 · Human ServicesSAN MIGUEL RES…PARADISE PLACE: $56,300 · Human ServicesPARADISE PLACEDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Human Services+4 more: $54,826 · Human Services+4 moreGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $224,927 · HealthGUNNISON VAL…CRESTED BUTTE STATE OF MIND: $217,043 · HealthCRESTED BUTT…LIVING JOURNEYS: $126,811 · HealthLIVING JOURN…Basin Clinic Inc: $50,000 · HealthBasin Clinic…TELLURIDE AIDS BENEFIT INC: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $20,645 · HealthTAYLOR CANYON FIRE STATION INC: $544,452 · Public Safety & DisasterTAYLOR CAN…CB AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $25,300 · Public Safety & DisasterGUNNISON HINSDALE YOUTH SERVICES: $126,849 · Youth DevelopmentALL AMERICAN FAMILIES: $60,118 · Youth DevelopmentTRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPeer Kindness Inc: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Pinhead Institute: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAN MIGUEL MENTORING PROGRAM: $20,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $15,600 · Youth DevelopmentMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT: $188,860 · Food & NutritionWESTERN COLORADO FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CO: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC: $15,600 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,448,003Arts & Culture$1,091,426Human Services$791,723Health$664,426Public Safety & Disaster$569,752Youth Development$387,567Food & Nutrition$289,460

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAYLOR CANYON FIRE STATION INC: $544,452 over 1y, 57% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $356,640 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetGunnison Council for the Arts: $344,330 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC: $282,175 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $224,927 over 5y, 16% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE STATE OF MIND: $217,043 over 6y, 16% of budgetSIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING INC: $191,317 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT: $188,860 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY: $160,656 over 3y, 12% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $160,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetGUNNISON HINSDALE YOUTH SERVICES: $126,849 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetLIVING JOURNEYS: $126,811 over 6y, 10% of budgetHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $103,400 over 3y, 11% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO: $101,960 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetGunnison Sanctuary Housing Inc: $90,465 over 3y, 35% of budgetCASA OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC: $72,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $68,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY HOUSING FUND: $67,450 over 3y, 48% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL: $66,456 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC): $63,705 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetALL AMERICAN FAMILIES: $60,118 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC: $57,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARADISE PLACE: $56,300 over 1y, 11% of budgetTELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM: $55,600 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE SAN JUANS: $53,795 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWest End Family Link Center: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHome Trust of Ouray County: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE LEARNING COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBasin Clinic Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $47,092 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $46,100 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club: $45,600 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CO: $45,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPeer Kindness Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGUNNISON COUNTY PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $44,236 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATIONAL FUND: $40,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWEST END ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBLACK CANYON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRESH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNORTH FORK VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $35,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG: $33,203 over 2y, 12% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

Telluride FoundationEl Pomar FoundationRocky Mountain Health…Colorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…Western Colorado Comm…Dea Family FoundationThe Thomas Phillips a…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Just For Kids Foundat…Ebb Point Foundation-…
Telluride FoundationCO58.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    48report 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.

    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 113 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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