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Eagle River Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN TOTS PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FAMILY LEARNING CENTER | $3,000 |
| EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION | $2,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,864 |
| PEEK - RED RIBBON PROJECT | $1,200 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| EAGLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $650 |
| THE CYCLE EFFECT | $500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD | $500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- EREAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL4× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +113%
- FLFAMILY LEARNING CENTER3× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +26%
- TCThe Cycle Effect5× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- EVEAGLE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NRNEW ROOTS COone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.
The eagle valley child care association aims to provide high quality early learning programs to the children of eagle county.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.
ESCC provides opportunities for at-risk, underserved youth, and young adults, from marginalized populations to experience and better understand their wilderness natural resources. ESCC provides programs that inform the general public about…
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,…
To prepare young people to make a positive impact in their communities and the world
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
Provide an alternative public education experience for children in the Walnut Creek, CA area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eagle River Youth Coalition Inc Dba Mountain Youth and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Tots Preschool. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RED RIBBON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Starting Hearts ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Mountain Tots Preschool ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MIND SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · United Way of Eagle River Valley · The Colorado Trust · The Denver Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Eagle River 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.
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.
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