Colorado · 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.
- $6.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,459,678
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Steamboat Springs Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $6.6M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $6.6M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $6.8M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $3.7M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $3.3M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $5.0M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $3.6M | 10% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $3.5M | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 | $34,732,020 | 9 | n/a |
| Hayden School District No RE-1 | $2,050,688 | 9 | n/a |
| South Routt School District RE-3 | $1,792,363 | 9 | n/a |
| Mountain Village Montessori Charter School | $1,519,164 | 8 | 11% |
| Partners in Routt County | $397,604 | 9 | 20% |
| North Routt Community Charter School | $331,757 | 3 | 14% |
| Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | $320,895 | 8 | 1% |
| Yampatika | $199,339 | 8 | 14% |
| Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association | $174,529 | 7 | 0% |
| Integrated Community | $115,909 | 8 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 | $34,732,020 | 9 | n/a |
| Hayden School District No RE-1 | $2,050,688 | 9 | n/a |
| South Routt School District RE-3 | $1,792,363 | 9 | n/a |
| Mountain Village Montessori Charter School | $1,519,164 | 8 | 11% |
| Partners in Routt County | $397,604 | 9 | 20% |
| North Routt Community Charter School | $331,757 | 3 | 14% |
| Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | $320,895 | 8 | 1% |
| Yampatika | $199,339 | 8 | 14% |
| Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association | $174,529 | 7 | 0% |
| Integrated Community | $115,909 | 8 | 3% |
| Northwest Colorado Boces | $99,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports | $84,274 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of the Orchestra | $37,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc | $37,094 | 5 | 0% |
| Steamboat Reading Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Strings Music Festival | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Opera Steamboat | $13,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Steamboat Dance Theatre | $5,500 | 1 | 3% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steamboat Springs Education Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · United Way of the Yampa Valley · Steve and Kelly Bloom Family Foundation · Bessie Minor Swift Foundation · Kettering Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
About Steamboat Springs Education Fund
- How much does Steamboat Springs Education Fund give?
- Steamboat Springs Education Fund reported 16 grants totaling $6,652,766 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steamboat Springs Education Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (97%), Youth Development (2%), Environment (0%).
- Who are Steamboat Springs Education Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 ($35M), Hayden School District No RE-1 ($2.1M), South Routt School District RE-3 ($1.8M).
- Does Steamboat Springs Education Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Steamboat Springs Education Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation.
- Where is Steamboat Springs Education Fund based?
- Steamboat Springs Education Fund is based in CO.
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