· Public charity
Telluride Foundation
The TELLURIDE FOUNDATION (the foundation) is committed to preserving and enriching the quality of life of the residents, visitors and workforce of the telluride region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 74 grants below total $1,977,872 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,233,044 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,255,172 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $841k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHT FUTURES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILIES | $227,500 |
| TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK | $111,680 |
| BETHANY COLLEGE | $80,000 |
| NORWOOD FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT EMS SERVICE | $71,465 |
| TELLURIDE HOSPITAL DISTRICT DBA TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER | $70,000 |
| RIDGWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT R-2 | $65,000 |
| REGION 10 ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND PLANNING | $65,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| HOME TRUST OF OURAY COUNTY | $50,000 |
| WEST END ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WEEDC | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAINFILM LTD | $45,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION | $45,000 |
| FRESH FOOD HUB | $45,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER | $40,000 |
| TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- BFBRIGHT FUTURES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +105%
- TTTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +99% · 30% of their budget
- MMOUNTAINFILM8× · 2017–2024 · $436k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INCone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -11%
- FLFORT LEWIS COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $129k
- EPENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +37%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Flaherty Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
163 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. 163 of the 210 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGION 10 LEAGUE FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND PLANNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds The Pinhead Institute ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL MENTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC) ↗
- Who funds Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LEVINDALE HEBREW GERIATRIC CENTER AND HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Basin Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT STUFF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNCOMPAHGRE COMBINED CLINICS ↗
- Who funds WEST END ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PALM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · Caring for Colorado 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 organization Telluride Foundation 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.
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.