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Eagle River Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$30kYouth Development$27kEnvironment$21kEducation$17kPhilanthropy$13kPublic Benefit$10kHuman Services$9kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$187k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STARTING HEARTS: $3k → 7%EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $4k → 8%EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION: $2k → 7%EVHS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%RED RIBBON PROJECT: $2k → 7%STARTING HEARTS: $2k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 8%RED RIBBON PROJECT: $2k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 8%STARTING HEARTS: $2k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 8%RED RIBBON PROJECT: $2k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 8%RED RIBBON PROJECT: $2k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 8%RED RIBBON PROJECT: $2k → 7%STARTING HEARTS: $2k → 7%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 7%EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION: $1k → 7%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATIONYOUTH POWER: $1k → 7%PEEK - RED RIBBON PROJECT: $1k → 7%NEW ROOTS: $4k → 7%CASTLE PEAK CARE CENTER: $4k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $4k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 7%MOUNTAIN YOUTH: $2k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2k → 7%MOUNTAIN YOUTH: $2k → 7%EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION: $2k → 7%EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION: $2k → 7%EAGLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 7%MOUNTAIN TOTS PRESCHOOL: $5k → 7%MOUNTAIN TOTS: $5k → 7%GOLDEN EAGLE SENIOR SITE COUNCIL: $4k → 7%EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $3k → 7%EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $3k → 7%EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $3k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $3k → 7%GOLDEN EAGLE SENIOR SITE COUNCIL: $3k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $3k → 7%THE CYCLE EFFECT: $2k → 7%THE CYCLE EFFECT: $2k → 7%GOLDEN EAGLE SENIOR SITE COUNCIL: $2k → 7%THE CYCLE EFFECT: $2k → 7%SPEAK-UPREACH-OUT: $2k → 7%THE CYCLE EFFECT: $2k → 7%EAGLE COUNTY 4H MEMBERS: $1k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 14 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$104k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+42%

Still filing today

50%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • ER
    EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +113%
  • FL
    FAMILY LEARNING CENTER
    3× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • TC
    The Cycle Effect
    5× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • EV
    EAGLE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • NR
    NEW ROOTS CO
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
Eagle River Valley Childcare

Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.

Human Services
2
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
3
Eagle Valley Child Care Association

The eagle valley child care association aims to provide high quality early learning programs to the children of eagle county.

Human Services
4
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
5
Environmental Learning for Kids

Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.

Youth Development
6
Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps

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…

Environment
7
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

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,…

Education
8
Eagle County Junior Livestock Sales Commission

To prepare young people to make a positive impact in their communities and the world

Education
9
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
10
Boulder Watershed Collective

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…

Environment
11
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
12
Eagle Peak Montessori School

Provide an alternative public education experience for children in the Walnut Creek, CA area.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eagle River Youth Coalition Inc Dba Mountain Youth; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 30 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10,400 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESEAGLE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATION: $10,100 · OtherEAGLE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIONFAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · OtherFAMILY LEARNING CENTERGOLDEN EAGLE SENIOR SITE COUNCIL: $8,315 · OtherGOLDEN EAGLE SENIOR SITE COUNCILEAGLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $7,200 · OtherEAGLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCEAGLE VALLEY BEHAVIORIAL HEALTH: $5,500 · OtherEAGLE VALLEY BEHAVIORIAL HEALTHIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOUNTAIN YOUTH: $4,500 · OtherMOUNTAIN YOUTHNEW ROOTS CO: $4,300 · OtherNEW ROOTS COCASTLE PEAK CARE CENTER: $4,000 · Other+9 more: $9,908 · Other+9 moreEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $12,500 · EnvironmentEAGLE RIVER WATE…EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $7,750 · EnvironmentEAGLE VALLEY LAN…+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentStarting Hearts: $8,500 · HealthSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY: $1,500 · HealthMIND SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC: $800 · HealthRED RIBBON PROJECT: $9,850 · Arts & CultureThe Cycle Effect: $7,950 · Recreation & SportsEAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH: $7,250 · Youth DevelopmentMountain Tots Preschool: $5,000 · EducationEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,864 · Philanthropy
Other$78,723Environment$20,750Health$10,800Arts & Culture$9,850Recreation & Sports$7,950Youth Development$7,250Education$5,000Philanthropy$4,864

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $12,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRED RIBBON PROJECT: $9,850 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetStarting Hearts: $8,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $7,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $7,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH: $7,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Tots Preschool: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,864 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationUnited Way of Eagle R…The Colorado TrustThe Denver FoundationNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eagle River Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eagle River Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Eagle River Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Eagle River Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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-PF 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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