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Kelton Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$1,250
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COLORADO CATTLEMAN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND$2,500
SCH ACADEMY - ANNUAL FUND$2,500
VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,500
CAREGIVER CONNECTIONS$2,000
WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER$2,000
EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$1,500
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DZI FOUNDATION: $400 → 10%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $400 → 10%BRIGHT BY THREE: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $1k → 8%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $750 → 8%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $500 → 8%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $500 → 8%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $500 → 8%SONNENALP OF VAIL FOUNDATION: $350 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 59% of Kelton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 40%.

Kelton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 38 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
38

Total granted

$311k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

45%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Y
    YOUTHPOWER365
    6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +90%
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +635%
  • VH
    VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • SA
    SCH ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -53%
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.

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Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
2
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
3
Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Vail Health Services

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.

Health
5
Vvmc Diversified Services

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
6
Bravo Colorado At Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival

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

Arts & Culture
7
Vail Valley Partnership

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…

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8
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
9
Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
10
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
11
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 87 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRAVO VAIL: $62,663 · OtherBRAVO VAILCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $18,500 · OtherCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGEMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $15,790 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERCOLORADO CATTLEMAN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND: $11,000 · OtherCMC FOUNDATION: $10,350 · OtherVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION - CAPITAL CAMP: $10,000 · OtherSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT ACADEMY: $7,500 · Other+49 more: $88,778 · Other+49 moreYOUTHPOWER365: $30,800 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,500 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COM…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,650 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMM…+1 more: $575 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY: $22,350 · EducationEDUCATION FO…BURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $11,500 · EducationBURR & BURTO…Vail Symposium: $2,500 · EducationVail Symposi…WALKING MOUNTAINS: $2,000 · EducationSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $1,500 · EducationVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $1,500 · Education+4 more: $2,750 · Education+4 moreVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $35,640 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALL…SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $8,000 · Arts & CultureVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $1,900 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $1,054 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $500 · HealthVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC: $3,250 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $1,500 · Human Services+3 more: $1,150 · Human Services
Other$224,581Philanthropy$58,525Education$44,100Community Improvement$35,640Arts & Culture$19,054Health$18,000Human Services$12,400

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 budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $35,640 over 8y, 0.1% of 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 budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,650 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $500 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
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 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 BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Vail Symposium ↗
  • Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗

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…The Denver FoundationSlifer Family Foundat…Howard & Martha Head …Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh…United Way of Eagle R…Borgen Family Foundat…The Precourt Foundati…Frechette Family Foun…Oklahoma City Communi…The Winmax Foundation…Vail Valley Cares
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kelton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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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