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· Public charity
Steamboat Springs Education Fund
The organization administers the proceeds of the half-cent sales tax to enhance academic accomplishment in Routt County through student facing investments in staff, facilities, infrastructure, technology and curriculum, made available through our public schools.
$6.5M
Granted FY2024
15
Grants
1
Communities
$5.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of Steamboat Springs Education Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
rmyccorpsenvironmentalyoungadults
2020
expeditionstied standardsrmyccorpsyounglearningenvironmental
2021
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2022
rmyccorpsenvironmentalyoungadults
2023
rmyccorpsyoungenvironmentaladults
2024
musicrmyccorpsyoungenvironmentalagesadults
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
- $250k+4 grants · $6.4M
$28,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Steamboat Springs School District RE-2$5,471,169
- Hayden School District No RE-1$330,441
- Steamboat Montessori Charter School$293,933
- South Routt School District RE-3$264,496
- Rocky Mountain Youth Corps$45,000
- Partners for Youth$30,910
- Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports$29,000
- Yampatika Environmental Literacy$28,000
- Northwest Colorado Health$17,616
- Integrated Community$13,427
- Steamboat Symphony Orchestra$12,000
- Strings Music Festival$10,000
- Steamboat Reading$9,000
- Opera Steamboat$7,500
- Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc$7,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32M · 14 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
3
Total granted
$32M
$27k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+92%
+307%
Still filing today
71%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
- SMSteamboat Montessori Charter School7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +57%
- POPartners of Routt County7× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +92%
- NRNorth Routt Community Charter School2× · 2018–2020 · $291k · revenue +555%
Funded once
- SMStrings Music Festivalgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +239%
- SRSteamboat Readinggraduatedone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +307%
- OSOpera Steamboatone grant, 2024 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
San Juan Mountains Association
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about, and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Environment
2
Opera Steamboat
The mission of opera steamboat is to enrich the well-being of our community through innovative, educational, and collaborative musical arts programs.
Arts & Culture
3
Yuba River Charter School
Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…
Education
4
Snowy Range Academy
The mission of Snowy Range Academy is to offer an academically rigorous content-rich integrated educational program grounded in a common foundation and sequence of study. Snowy Range Academy will practice excellence and fairness in…
Education
5
Compass Montessori School
Compass Montessori Wheat Ridge is a PK-6 charter school that uses the Montessori philosophy to provide a positive learning experience for its students. The school uses multi-age classrooms with children acting as both students and…
Education
6
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc
The Wild Rockies Field Institute offers academically rigorous, place-based field courses that develop engaged, informed citizens and strong leaders capable of addressing complex social and environmental issues.
Education
7
Colorado Youth Outdoors Charitable Trust
Building Relationships through Traditional Outdoor Recreation
Environment
8
Fort Collins Symphony Association
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
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9
Colorado Music Bridge
Colorado Music Bridge provides access to inclusive modern music education programs, curricular resources, and professional development.
Arts & Culture
10
Community School Collaborative
Community School Collaborative empowers Park County youth through innovative career exploration experiences to achieve a fulfilling and meaningful education, career and life.
Education
11
Telluride Mountain School Inc
The School delivers a program of challenging academics that promotes critical thinking, aesthetic expression and ethical behavior, while encompassing a commitment to community service, global citizenship and engagement with the natural…
Education
12
Breckenridge Montessori Inc
Breckenridge Montessori is committed to providing the highest quality educational experience for children aged 2 1/2 to 7 years. We are dedicated to offering Dr. Maria Montessoris method of education to children and parents of Summit…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Village Montessori Charter School. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$29,977,971Education$1,810,353Youth Development$245,895Environment$146,339Health$136,884Human Services$91,390Recreation & Sports$69,274
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 Steamboat Montessori Charter School ↗
- Who funds Partners of Routt County ↗
- Who funds North Routt Community Charter School ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Youth Corps ↗
- Who funds Yampatika Environmental Literacy ↗
- Who funds Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association ↗
- Who funds Integrated Community ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Strings Music Festival ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Reading ↗
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.
Colorado Gives FoundationCO28.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · United Way of the Yampa Valley · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Kettering Family Foundation · Rotary International Steamboat Springs · Steve and Kelly Bloom · Tatar Family Foundation · Bessie Minor Swift Foundation
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 organisation Steamboat Springs Education Fund 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Partners of Routt County.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +92% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841339921 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Partners of Routt County, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Steamboat Springs Education Fund?
Find your warmest path to Steamboat Springs Education Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines