· Public charity
Vail Valley Cares
Vail Valley Cares is an ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to sharing the love of God by helping meet the local communitys needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $476,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $640,603 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $164,603 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 · $93k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hope Center | $40,000 |
| Vail Valley Charitable Foundation | $40,000 |
| Bright Futures Fouundation | $38,500 |
| Hospice of the Valley Inc | $34,000 |
| Eagle Valley Behavioral Health | $25,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $20,500 |
| Vail Valley Salvation Army | $20,000 |
| Speakup Reachout | $17,500 |
| CASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE | $16,500 |
| Mountain Family Health Centers | $15,000 |
| Small Champions | $15,000 |
| VIDA Foundation | $14,000 |
| Eagle County School District | $13,000 |
| Caregiver Connections | $12,500 |
| Eagle County Crime Stoppers | $11,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 15 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- VVVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +135%
- BFBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $163k · revenue +104%
- AHASPEN HOPE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $116k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- LLift-Up2× · 2022–2023 · $8k
- MDMOUNTAIN DREAMERSgraduated2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +120%
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.
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.
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.
We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
VIVE addresses the health equity and wellness needs of many of Colorados low-income youth, who face significant health disparities and often lack access to engaging physical activity and health education.
Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.
The EpicPromise Foundation supports Vail Resorts employees and their dependents in times of need through emergency financial assistance and educational grants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eagle River Youth Coalition Inc Dba Mountain Youth and the most unlike its peers is The 4 Eagle Foundation. 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 17 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 Charitable Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY SENIOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds SMALL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds The 4 Eagle Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WEST INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds VAIL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds VIDA FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PROJECT EC VOLUNTEERS FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Vail Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds World Class Accessibility Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN DREAMERS ↗
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: United Way of Eagle River Valley · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Eagle Valley Mental Health · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · Slifer Smith & Frampton Foundation · Vail Valley Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Denver 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 Vail Valley Cares 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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