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Directors' Invitational Ski Classic

The purpose of the corporation is to foster national or international amateur sport competition and education.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$38k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$731kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $55,819, the rows itemized in this filing. The $89,819 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,000 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$276k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US SKI & SNOWBOARD$37,500
TELLEURIDE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB$10,000
COLORADO GIVES$8,319
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%TELLEURIDE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB: $10k → 7%TELLURIDE SKI & SNOWBOARD: $8k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$685k · 5 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$685k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
0%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    5× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +69%
  • US
    United States Ski Association
    2× · 2024–2025 · $162k · revenue +11%
  • WC
    WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • TF
    T2 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • BB
    BOB BEATTIE SKI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -82%
  • SS
    STIEGLER SKI RACING CAMPS LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
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
Ussa Investment Fund

Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.

Recreation & Sports
2
Usa Ski Jumping

To support, advance, and unify American ski jumping at all levels.

Recreation & Sports
3
United States Skiing Foundation

United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…

—
4
United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboa Uscsa

To be the Nationally Governing Body of Team Ski and Snowboard Competition at the Collegiate Level and provide competition and development opportunities for student activities in a team atmosphere. Determining National Championships in each…

—
5
Silverfork Skimo Foundation

None

Recreation & Sports
6
The International Water Ski Racing Association Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Alpental-Snoqualmie Ski Foundation

Educate and train future ski racing champions. we help alpine ski racers achieve their racing potential through the highest level of physical conditioning, race training and professional coaching.

—
8
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
9
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation

Big Sky Ski Education Foundation offers competitive Alpine, Freeride, and Nordic skiing programs.

—
10
Far West Skiing Inc

Far West Skiing promotes participation and enthusiasm in alpine ski racing from entry level to elite level by encouraging and supporting Far West clubs, athletes, coaches and officials to become passionate lifelong skiers.

Recreation & Sports
11
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc

To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.

—
12
Outdoor Sports Foundation

To support young athletes who are training for the Olympics in alpine ski racing

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Ski Team Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Z Girls Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United States Ski Team Foundation: $310,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team FoundationUnited States Ski Association: $161,500 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski AssociationWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $38,329 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATIONAMERICAN DOWNHILLER: $158,000 · OtherAMERICAN DOWNHILLERT2 FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherT2 FOUNDATIONBOB BEATTIE SKI FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherBOB BEATTIE SKI FOUNDATIONSTIEGLER SKI RACING CAMPS LLC: $13,000 · OtherSTIEGLER SKI RACING CAMPS LLCLAKE TAHOE SKI CLUB FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherTelluride Ski and Snowboard Club Inc: $17,500 · Human ServicesCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $8,319 · PhilanthropyZ GIRLS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$509,829Other$214,000Human Services$17,500Philanthropy$8,319Youth Development$8,000

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 budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $310,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUnited States Ski Association: $161,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $38,329 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetT2 FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTelluride Ski and Snowboard Club Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOB BEATTIE SKI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetLAKE TAHOE SKI CLUB FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetZ GIRLS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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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 Directors' Invitational Ski Classic funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Directors' Invitational Ski Classic. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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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