· Private foundation
The EPIK Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $55,000 |
| BRAVO COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VAIL INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SANTA FE OPERA | $15,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART | $5,000 |
| ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +72% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +139%
- LPLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER4× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +132%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- BCBRAVO COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVALone grant, 2020 · $110k
- BVBRAVO VAILone grant, 2019 · $51k
- VVVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION-STAR GALAone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Enriching people's lives through the power of music.*producing the finest performances by the greatest artists*fostering music education, and*promoting a life-long appreciation for the arts
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
Colorado ballet's mission is to present exceptional classical ballet and contemporary dance through performances, training, education and community engagement while inspiring and growing an increasingly diverse audience base.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Advance the purposes of the van wert county foundation by stimulating the community interest in the performing arts by sponsoring public performances of concerts, dance, theater, and public school performing arts programs and other similar…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Starting Hearts ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Winmax Foundation Inc · Frechette Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The EPIK Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The EPIK Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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