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Slifer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION (VVF) | $24,250 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $16,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $5,300 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $5,000 |
| VAIL INTERFAITH CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| COLORADO UNIVERSITY LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $4,020 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY | $1,600 |
| VAIL SYMPOSIUM | $1,000 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH WIEGERS CLINIC | $1,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIES | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $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 (FY25–25, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- VSVail Symposium3× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +42%
- WMWALKING MOUNTAINS2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +28%
- YYOUTHPOWER3652× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- EVEAGLE VALLEY BEHAVORIAL HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- VMVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +5%
- DEDOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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,…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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.
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…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Vail Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc. 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 44 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vail Symposium ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds GREENSCAPE OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds WJCT INC ↗
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 · Kelton Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · The Tang Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Frampton Family Charitable Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · United Way of Eagle River Valley
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 Slifer 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.
- Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc — 2% 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.
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