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Epicpromise Employee Foundation

The EpicPromise Foundation supports Vail Resorts employees and their dependents in times of need through emergency financial assistance and educational grants.

$1.8M
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2018 to 2021.

Philanthropy$85kHousing & Shelter$65kFood & Nutrition$37kHuman Services$30kRecreation & Sports$18kReligion$9k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $151,862, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,769,342 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,617,480 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Valley Housing Fund$64,930
The Summit Foundation$39,932
El Dorado Community Foundation$15,000
Christian Center Park City$13,000
Eagle Valley Community Foundation$11,000
NH Food Bank$8,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Family & Intercultrual Resource Cen: $11k → 9%Douglas County Backpack Buddies: $2k → 8%NH Food Bank: $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.

Grants abroad, by region: $170k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$170k · 100% · 67 people

Stated purpose: Emergency Relief Grants · Education Grants

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its 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
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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2
Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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3
Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County

A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…

Food & Nutrition
4
Valley Life for All

Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.

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5
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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6
Rainier Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to nourish with good food, empower with knowledge, and serve with compassion.

Unclassified
7
Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc

The organizations mission is to alleviate food insecurity by providing supplemental food assistance to individuals and families in need. The organization receives monetary contributions used to purchase food and accepts donated food from…

Food & Nutrition
8
Valley Community Emergency Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to end hunger in the valley county, montana area through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. our vision is a montana free from hunger where everyone has equal access to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition
9
Northwest Family Assistance Center

Our mission is to provide emergency and alternative food resources to residents of Northwest Denver in ways that promote respect and dignity.

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10
Siskiyou Community Food Bank

We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse

To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Mana; the most unlike its peers is Douglas County BackPack Buddies. 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 13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $39,932 · PhilanthropyTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATIONEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,900 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONEl Dorado Community Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyEl Dorado Community FoundationEpicpromise Employee Foundation: $11,000 · PhilanthropyEpicpromise Employee FoundationVALLEY HOUSING FUND: $64,930 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY HOUSING FUNDUPPER VALLEY MEND: $18,000 · OtherUPPER VALLEY MEN…PROJECT MANA: $9,412 · OtherPROJECT MANAPASTOR OF ST THERESA PARISH- SOUTH LAKE TAHOE A CORPORATION SOLE: $8,975 · OtherPASTOR OF ST THE…SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10,756 · Human ServicesSUMMIT CO…New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $8,000 · Human ServicesNew Hamps…Douglas County BackPack Buddies: $1,500 · Human ServicesDouglas C…CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $19,200 · ReligionOutdoors for all Foundation: $18,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$84,832Housing & Shelter$64,930Other$36,387Human Services$20,256Religion$19,200Recreation & Sports$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALLEY HOUSING FUND: $64,930 over 1y, 46% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $39,932 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $19,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,900 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUPPER VALLEY MEND: $18,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEl Dorado Community Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEpicpromise Employee Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10,756 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT MANA: $9,412 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDouglas County BackPack Buddies: $1,500 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Epicpromise Employee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epicpromise Employee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    4report 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 13 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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