· 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $231k
- $250k+4 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 | $5,459,678 |
| Hayden School District No RE-1 | $328,616 |
| Steamboat Montessori Charter School | $303,532 |
| South Routt School District RE-3 | $262,844 |
| Partners for Youth | $45,708 |
| Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | $45,000 |
| Northwest Colorado Health | $37,645 |
| Yampatika Environmental Literacy | $28,000 |
| Integrated Community | $24,519 |
| Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports | $15,000 |
| Steamboat Reading | $15,000 |
| Steamboat Symphony Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Strings Music Festival | $10,000 |
| Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc | $7,000 |
| Opera Steamboat | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +124% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MVMOUNTAIN VILLAGE MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +84%
- PIPARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $398k · revenue +171%
- NRNORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $332k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- SDSTEAMBOAT DANCE THEATREone grant, 2025 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of opera steamboat is to enrich the well-being of our community through innovative, educational, and collaborative musical arts programs.
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
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,…
To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.
YVAP helps neurodivergent youth aged 3-21 by providing individual therapy, social skills integration, community partnerships, education support, workplace readiness, community education, and family resources.
The purpose(s) of the Partnership is to improve the quality of life and economic well-being across Routt County by: (i) enabling business and job retention to increase employment and improve the public welfare, (ii) promoting and assisting…
CYSO is a nonprofit, nondiscriminatory organization that brings together Colorado youth of all ages to participate in an affordable, educational, professionally directed program which provides orchestral ensembles appropriate to student…
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
To bring nationally and internationally recognized experts on a wide range of public policy issues to the Steamboat community. Seminars are free and open to the public.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Youth Corps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 MOUNTAIN VILLAGE MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ROUTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds YAMPATIKA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT READING INC ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT DANCE THEATRE ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.