· Public charity
Durango Area Tourism Office Inc
To leverage limited resources into equitable, creative, strategic, and comprehensive annual marketing programs sufficient to generate growing consumer interest in the durango/la plata county area and accomplish tourism marketing goals.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $60,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,610 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,610 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUTDOOR BLOGGER SUMMIT | $35,000 |
| SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 Durango Arts Center ("DAC") enriches the community through innovative visual and performing art, and arts education. DAC advances appreciation and participation in the arts as a cultural leader in the region.
The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
The Durango Chamber of Commerce is a membership based organization that promotes and supports the local business economy.
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…
Rooted in the living transmission of Theravada Buddhism, the purpose of the Durango Dharma Center is personal and collective liberation. We practice together to cultivate awakened minds and compassionate hearts. Building a culture of…
The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural…
To create a welcoming, diverse, active creative culture that supports the Mancos Valley by socially and economically.
UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…
Working to ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs serves as the economic, civic, and cultural heart of Colorado Springs.
San juan resource conservation and development council, inc.'s mission is to protect and improve the natural, cultural, historic and economic resources of the eight county area of southwest colorado.
Integrated Community (CIIC) is an educational and a human service organization dedicated to supporting immigrant families integrate to the way of life in our community by gaining greater linguistic and cultural competency.
Durango Friends of the Arts Inc is a volunteer organization dedicated to fund raising in order to provide grants to non-profit organizations, individuals, schools, etc. with performing and visual arts programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durango Botanic Gardens and the most unlike its peers is Dancing Spirit Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE POWERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds DANCING SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds TRAILS 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds Durango Montessori Inc ↗
- Who funds ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION LITERACY HEALTH INSPIRATION ASSOCIATION - ELHI ↗
- Who funds In The Weeds ↗
- Who funds Snowdown Durango Inc ↗
- Who funds DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds i AM Music Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST ↗
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: Ballantine Family Fund · Team Up · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · The Moniker Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · La Plata Electric Association Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family 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 Durango Area Tourism Office Inc 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.
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.