· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAVO VAIL | $16,758 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| YOUTH POWER 365 - VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $3,000 |
| VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SCH ACADEMY - ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| COLORADO CATTLEMAN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND | $2,500 |
| WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CAREGIVER CONNECTIONS | $2,000 |
| TEAM LEO ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 59% of Kelton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- YYOUTHPOWER3656× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +90%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +635%
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- SASCH ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BBBRIGHT BEGINNINGSone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -56%
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.
The purposes and objectives of the vilar performing arts center is to promote and develop awareness of and appreciation of the arts and to educate the general public about the arts through the ownership and operation of a theater by…
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
Enriching people's lives through the power of music.*producing the finest performances by the greatest artists*fostering music education, and*promoting a life-long appreciation for the arts
Our mission is focused around five primary goals: building communities to which residents, visitors and investors are attracted; promoting the communities; striving to ensure future prosperity via a pro-business climate; representing the…
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 87 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Vail Symposium ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS ↗
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 · 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
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 Kelton Family 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.
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.