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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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$64kPhilanthropy$49kHealth$12kReligion$11kEnvironment$10kCommunity Improvement$10kEducation$8kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$291k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST$1,000
VAIL HEALTH WIEGERS CLINIC$1,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIES$700
VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC$500
OBAMA FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRIGHT FUTURES: $500 → 7%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $200 → 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

IL
MI
MA
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 13 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$92k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • VS
    Vail Symposium
    3× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +42%
  • WM
    WALKING MOUNTAINS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +28%
  • Y
    YOUTHPOWER365
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • EV
    EAGLE VALLEY BEHAVORIAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • VM
    VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +5%
  • DE
    DOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
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
2
Education Commission of the States

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…

Education
3
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
4
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado

Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.

Recreation & Sports
5
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
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
8
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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9
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
10
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
11
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
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Vail Valley Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 54 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRAVO VAIL: $55,088 · OtherBRAVO VAILVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION (VVF): $24,250 · OtherVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION (VVF)VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONEAGLE VALLEY BEHAVORIAL HEALTH: $10,000 · OtherEAGLE VALLEY BEHAVORIAL HEALTH+37 more: $23,148 · Other+37 moreEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24,672 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY CO…YOUTHPOWER365: $2,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365Vail Symposium: $7,702 · EducationVail Symp…WALKING MOUNTAINS: $7,500 · EducationWALKING M…VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationVAIL MOUN…VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $100 · Community ImprovementTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $5,000 · InternationalASHOKA: $400 · InternationalROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5,300 · Recreation & SportsEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,000 · EnvironmentGREENSCAPE OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $500 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $300 · Environment
Other$122,486Philanthropy$26,672Education$16,202Community Improvement$10,100International$5,400Recreation & Sports$5,300Environment$2,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24,672 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVail Symposium: $7,702 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $578 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSCAPE OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHOKA: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWJCT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Kelton Family Foundat…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationThe Joyce & Paul Kras…The Precourt Foundati…Frechette Family Foun…The Tang FundThe Colorado Health F…Frampton Family Chari…Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh…United Way of Eagle R…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Slifer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Slifer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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%
  • Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Slifer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Slifer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 54 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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