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Durango Area Tourism Office Inc at a glance

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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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$123kArts & Culture$77kCommunity Improvement$69kEnvironment$60kPhilanthropy$39kFood & Nutrition$31kEducation$28kPublic Benefit$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $60,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,610 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,610 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.
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUTDOOR BLOGGER SUMMIT$35,000
SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WIZEHIVE INC: $15k → 7%OUTDOOR BLOGGER SUMMIT: $35k → 8%ELHI ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 10%ESOTERRA INC: $8k → 12%ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%THE POWERHOUSE: $24k → 12%TRAILS 2000 INC: $16k → 12%CONSERVATION LEGACY: $15k → 12%TABLE TO FARM COMPOST: $15k → 12%DURANGO MONTESSORI INC: $15k → 12%THE GOOD FIGHT LLC: $14k → 12%DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $12k → 12%HELLO LOLA LLC: $10k → 12%IN THE WEEDS: $10k → 12%DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $10k → 12%CARVER BREWING COMPANY: $9k → 12%IAM MUSIC INC: $9k → 12%SCHERTZ-AVANTAGGIO PROPERTIES LLC: $8k → 12%DURANGO BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT: $7k → 12%DANCING SPIRIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $18k → 12%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
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
Durango Arts Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

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…

Environment
3
Durango Chamber of Commerce

The Durango Chamber of Commerce is a membership based organization that promotes and supports the local business economy.

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4
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
5
Durango Sangha

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…

Religion
6
Cortez Center Inc Dba Cortez Cultural Center

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…

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7
Mancos Creative District Inc

To create a welcoming, diverse, active creative culture that supports the Mancos Valley by socially and economically.

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8
UpRoot Colorado

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs

Working to ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs serves as the economic, civic, and cultural heart of Colorado Springs.

Community Improvement
10
San Juan Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc

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.

Environment
11
Integrated Community

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.

Human Services
12
Durango Friends of the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durango Botanic Gardens; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IRON HORSE BICYCLE CLASSIC: $54,000 · OtherIRON HORSE BICYCLE CLASSICOUTDOOR BLOGGER SUMMIT: $35,000 · OtherOUTDOOR BLOGGER SUMMITDANCING SPIRIT INC: $17,920 · OtherDANCING SPIRIT INCDURANGO TOOL LIBRARY: $17,125 · OtherDURANGO TOOL LIBRARYMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $16,000 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHENTABLE TO FARM COMPOST: $15,000 · OtherTABLE TO FARM COMPOSTWIZEHIVE: $15,000 · OtherWIZEHIVETHE GOOD FIGHT LLC: $14,000 · OtherTHE GOOD FIGHT LLCSnowdown Durango Inc: $10,000 · OtherHELLO LOLA LLC: $10,000 · OtherCARVER BREWING COMPANY: $9,206 · OtherIn The Weeds: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $34,237 · Other+5 moreDurango Montessori Inc: $14,800 · EducationDurango Mon…ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $13,106 · EducationONWARD A LE…EDUCATION LITERACY HEALTH INSPIRATION ASSOCIATION - ELHI: $10,000 · EducationEDUCATION L…DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $9,700 · EducationDURANGO ADU…SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION: $33,000 · EnvironmentSAN JUAN MO…DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $12,350 · EnvironmentDURANGO BOT…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $39,465 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…THE POWERHOUSE: $24,000 · Arts & Culturei AM Music Inc: $8,500 · Arts & CultureTRAILS 2000 INC: $15,719 · Recreation & SportsCONSERVATION LEGACY: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$257,488Education$47,606Environment$45,350Philanthropy$39,465Arts & Culture$32,500Recreation & Sports$15,719Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $39,465 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION: $33,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE: $24,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDANCING SPIRIT INC: $17,920 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRAILS 2000 INC: $15,719 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDurango Montessori Inc: $14,800 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $13,106 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $12,350 over 1y, 13% of budgetEDUCATION LITERACY HEALTH INSPIRATION ASSOCIATION - ELHI: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetIn The Weeds: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $9,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgeti AM Music Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLOCAL FIRST: $5,250 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

Ballantine Family FundTeam UpCommunity Foundation …El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Thoren Family Charita…The Moniker FoundationThe Colorado Health F…La Plata Electric Ass…Rocky Mountain Health…Mile High United Way …Gates Family Foundati…
Ballantine Family FundCO24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Durango Area Tourism Office Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Durango Area Tourism Office Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 28 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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