· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 Reading | $15,000 |
| Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports | $15,000 |
| Steamboat Symphony Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Strings Music Festival | $10,000 |
| Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc | $7,000 |
| Opera Steamboat | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +124% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steamboat Springs Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steamboat Springs Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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