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Rushmore Family Foundation at a glance

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Rushmore Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$135kEducation$77kCommunity Improvement$52kPhilanthropy$39kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION$27,000
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS$25,000
QUERENCIA FOUNDATION$25,000
VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM$10,000
BUILD INC$5,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$4,000
HIRSCHORN MUSEUM$2,500
DENVER CITY LAX$1,000
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 (FY22–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM: $10k → 7%VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM: $10k → 7%VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM: $10k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$264k · 8 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$264k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-13%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • EV
    EAGLE VALLEY COMM FDN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k
  • GS
    GUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue -89% · 76% of their budget
  • VV
    VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • HH
    HOLLAND HALL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • GS
    GUARDIAN SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
2
Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
3
Vail Mountain School

We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.

Education
4
The Elway Foundation
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5
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
6
Epicpromise Employee Foundation

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

Philanthropy
7
Vail Family Foundation
—
8
Valley Life for All

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

—
9
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…

—
10
Evans Scholars Foundation - Colorado

Educational

Education
11
Vail Pass Task Force co Tenth Mountain Div Hut Assoc Inc

Organize the recreation activities on vail pass, colorado, to enable quality use of the forest by motorized and non-motorized users. the establishment of this task force brings together the backcountry skiiers with snowmobilers and allows…

Public Benefit
12
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Querencia Foundation. 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 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAGLE VALLEY COMM FDN: $75,100 · OtherEAGLE VALLEY COMM FDNBRAVO VAIL: $25,000 · OtherBRAVO VAILHOLLAND HALL FUND: $25,000 · OtherHOLLAND HALL FUNDVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUILD INC: $20,000 · OtherBUILD INCGUARDIAN SCHOLARS: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $22,500 · Other+5 moreGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $65,000 · EducationGUARDIAN SCHOLAR…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $52,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY F…EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Querencia Foundation: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health
Other$230,600Education$67,000Community Improvement$52,000Philanthropy$35,000Human Services$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 76% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Querencia Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUILD INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVail Symposium: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives 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 Rushmore Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rushmore Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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 20 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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