· Private foundation
The Winmax 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 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 $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vail Valley Foundation | $85,000 |
| Bravo Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek dba Bravo Vail Music Festival | $45,000 |
| Education Foundation of Eagle County | $25,000 |
| Round-Up River Ranch | $25,000 |
| Betty Ford Alpine Gardens | $20,000 |
| Vail Christian Academy | $15,000 |
| Eagle Valley Community Foundation | $12,000 |
| Guardian Scholars | $12,000 |
| Colorado Mountain College Fund | $10,000 |
| Bright Futures Foundation | $10,000 |
| Vail Performning Arts Academy | $10,000 |
| Vail Health Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Art in Public Places | $1,000 |
| Colorado Ski Museum (aka Colorado Snowsports Museum) | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- BFBetty Ford Alpine Gardens9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +14%
- BCBRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +9%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +843%
Funded once
- BCBravo CO Music Festival Fdnone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BVBravo Vail Education Fundone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
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.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
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.
Our mission is focused around five primary goals: building communities to which residents, visitors and investors are attracted; promoting the communities; striving to ensure future prosperity via a pro-business climate; representing the…
Aces' mission is to inspire a life-long commitment to the earth by providing innovative and immersive programming for all ages.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maysville Players Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 58 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Starting Hearts ↗
- Who funds Colorado Ski Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds For The Good ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Vail Centre ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Frampton Family Charitable Foundation · The Ronald Davis Family Foundation · Borgen Family Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · Mantz Foundation · The EPIK Foundation Inc · The Kelly and Sam Bronfman Family Foundation (Aka the Sam & Kelly Bronfma)
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 The Winmax Foundation Inc 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.
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