· 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 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 $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 |
| Vail Performning Arts Academy | $10,000 |
| Bright Futures Foundation | $10,000 |
| Vail Health Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Vail Jazz Foundation | $1,000 |
| Tubac Center for the Arts | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BFBetty Ford Alpine Gardens9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +97%
- 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
- CSColorado Snowsports Museumone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 58 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 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 RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 VAIL MOUNTAIN RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds For The Good ↗
- Who funds Vail Centre ↗
- Who funds World Class Accessibility Foundation ↗
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: 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)
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Winmax Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Winmax Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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