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Kelton Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$88k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$16,758
Organizations funded a year
10 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Kelton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$80k23%
FY202329$69k17%
FY202226$59k35%
FY202123$41k35%
FY202024$35k63%
FY201926$28k38%
FY201825$25k76%
FY201710$13kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$92kArts & Culture$87kHealth$41kCommunity Improvement$38kYouth Development$33kPhilanthropy$30kEnvironment$27kHuman Services$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Kelton Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Youthpower365$30,80060%
Education Foundation of Eagle Cnty$22,35061%
Vail Health Services Foundation$15,00050%
Burr & Burton Seminary$11,50030%
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617$8,00050%
Vail Performing Arts Academy$7,00070%
Vail Veterans Foundation Inc$6,50030%
Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc$6,00020%
Team Leo Animal Rescue$4,8004n/a
Best Friends Animal Society$4,00050%
Hospice of the Valley Inc$3,25050%
Bright Future Foundation for Eagle County$2,50020%
Vail Symposium$2,50040%
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens$2,50030%
Mountain Valley Health Council Inc$2,50060%
Walking Mountains$2,00010%
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$1,90020%
Bright Beginnings$1,50010%
Landgrove Historical Society Inc$1,5003n/a
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy$1,50010%
Vail Mountain School$1,50010%
The St Francis Center$1,3003n/a
Shaw Outreach Team$1,25021%
Denver Art Museum$1,05410%
Eagle Valley Land Trust$1,00020%
New England Ski Museum Inc$1,00010%
Us-China Cultural Institute Inc$1,00010%
University of Colorado Foundation$75010%
Colorado Wildlife Federation Inc$75011%
Gofundmeorg$57510%
Vail Centre$50010%
Town of Vail$5001n/a
Literacy Project Ec Volunteers for Literacy$50010%
Vail Valley Charitable Fund Inc$40010%
Dzi Foundation$40010%
Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group$37511%
Sonnenalp of Vail Foundation$35010%
Gabriel Foundation$25010%
Neighborhood Connections Inc$25010%
Skifast Foundation Inc$25010%
Londonderry Arts & Historical Society Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kelton Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouthpower365: $30,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEducation Foundation of Eagle Cnty: $22,350 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVail Health Services Foundation: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBurr & Burton Seminary: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVail Performing Arts Academy: $7,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVail Veterans Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Mountain College Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley Inc: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBright Future Foundation for Eagle County: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVail Symposium: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Valley Health Council Inc: $2,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWalking Mountains: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBright Beginnings: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringside Chestnut Hill Academy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Mountain School: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaw Outreach Team: $1,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $1,054 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Valley Land Trust: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Ski Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUs-China Cultural Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Wildlife Federation Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGofundmeorg: $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Centre: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiteracy Project Ec Volunteers for Literacy: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDzi Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Breast Cancer Awareness Group: $375 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSonnenalp of Vail Foundation: $350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGabriel Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Connections Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSkifast Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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 FoundationCO35.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Slifer Family Foundation · Howard & Martha Head Foundation Inc · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · United Way of Eagle River Valley · Borgen Family Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · The Winmax Foundation Inc · Vail Valley Cares

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.

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About Kelton Family Foundation

How much does Kelton Family Foundation give?
Kelton Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $88,012 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kelton Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (10%).
Who are Kelton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Youthpower365 ($31k), Education Foundation of Eagle Cnty ($22k), Vail Health Services Foundation ($15k).
Does Kelton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kelton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kelton Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Slifer Family Foundation.
Where is Kelton Family Foundation based?
Kelton Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 87 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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