· Private foundation
Cornet Creek Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TELLURIDE SCIENCE AND INNOVATION | $7,000 |
| PINHEAD INSTITUTE INC | $7,000 |
| THE POTOMAC FOUNDATION | $5,080 |
| MOUNTAINFILM LTD | $4,200 |
| TELLURIDE YOUTH LACROSS ASSOCIATION | $3,610 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US | $250 |
| TELLURIDE HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $100 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $100 |
| MARET SCHOOL | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TMTELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $201k · revenue +28%
- TPThe Pinhead Institute7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +54%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- AHAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +16%
- TMTELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM LTDone grant, 2019 · $9k
- GGIVEINDIAone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Advance the well- being of mountain people and conservation of mountain environments.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The telluride institute is an innovative non-profit organization that fosters the transition to a sustainable world. we work with communities, business, and the public sector to create and advance real solutions that support the health of…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
we ensure the availability of critical field data that accelerates conservation and climate solutions. we achieve our mission by mobilizing and training outdoor enthusiasts and local communities to collect high-quality scientific data that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado and the most unlike its peers is The Potomac Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Pinhead Institute ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds SHEEP MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE YOUTH LACROSSE ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE AWARENESS AND SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Telluride Historical Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC ↗
- Who funds WORDPRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Telluride Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Day Family Foundation · Thomas J Rolfs Foundation · Thomas H and Donna M Stone Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Cornet Creek Foundation 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.
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.