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Vail Valley Foundation

VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Youth Development$6.7MArts & Culture$2.5MHuman Services$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.6MEnvironment$985kRecreation & Sports$339kEducation$134kCommunity Improvement$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$19,177
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTHPOWER365$1,234,013
EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CENTER$1,050,000
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$556,362
BRAVO VAIL$27,170
SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL$19,177
THE CYCLE EFFECT$15,000
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH$12,600
WALKING MOUNTAINS$11,000
FAMILY LEARNING CENTER$10,000
BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VIDA FOUNDATION USA: $35k → 8%VIDA FOUNDATION USA: $7k → 8%EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CENTER: $1.1M → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $55k → 8%EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CENTER: $582k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND: $395k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND: $80k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $22k → 7%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $14k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 7%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $10k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 7%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $9k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $7k → 7%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $7k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 23 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
15

Total granted

$14M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+30%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthEducationOther

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

  • Y
    YOUTHPOWER365
    8× · 2018–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +65%
  • VP
    VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +255%
  • WM
    WALKING MOUNTAINS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $979k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +30%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +86%
  • SE
    Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
2
Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
3
Epicpromise Employee Foundation

The EpicPromise Foundation supports Vail Resorts employees and their dependents in times of need through emergency financial assistance and educational grants.

Philanthropy
4
Valley Life for All

Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.

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5
Ute Springs Experiential Learning Center

Ute Springs Experiential Learning Center is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization whosemission is to enhance social-emotional learning through increased self-awareness,social-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, and…

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6
Vail Valley Partnership

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…

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7
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
8
Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
9
Evans Scholars Foundation - Colorado

Educational

Education
10
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
11
Vail Valley Foundation

Vail valley foundation was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.

Community Improvement
12
Vive

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.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eagle River Valley Childcare and the most unlike its peers is Evolve Thrive Joy Youth Non- Profit. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr17%13%5–10yr25%13%10–20yr20%42%20–35yr10%13%35–55yr10%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%12%<5yr17%1%5–10yr25%1%10–20yr20%79%20–35yr10%3%35–55yr10%4%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
13%
66/522

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUTHPOWER365 — $7,620,103 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365+4 more — $433,578 · Philanthropy+4 moreVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $2,169,314 · Arts & CultureVILAR PERFORMING A…BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL — $265,670 · Arts & CultureBRAVO COLORADO AT …+2 more — $34,000 · Arts & CultureEAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE — $1,631,852 · Human ServicesEAGLE RIVER VALLE…EAGLE VALLEY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND — $475,000 · Human ServicesEAGLE VALLEY FAMI…+7 more — $224,131 · Human Services+7 moreWALKING MOUNTAINS — $979,175 · EducationVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $112,000 · EducationSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $316,677 · OtherBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY — $146,392 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $61,892 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC — $50,000 · OtherSMALL CHAMPIONS OF EAGLE COUNTY — $34,500 · Other+9 more — $122,177 · OtherThe Cycle Effect — $96,892 · Recreation & SportsSOS OUTREACH — $39,392 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $12,600 · Recreation & SportsStarting Hearts — $32,000 · HealthTrio Therapy Partners — $11,500 · HealthSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY — $9,392 · Health
Philanthropy$8,053,681Arts & Culture$2,468,984Human Services$2,330,983Education$1,091,175Other$731,638Recreation & Sports$148,884Health$52,892

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTHPOWER365 — $7,620,103 over 8y, 24% of budgetVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $2,169,314 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetEAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE — $1,631,852 over 2y, 62% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS — $979,175 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND — $475,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $316,677 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL — $265,670 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $238,794 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY — $146,392 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND — $140,392 over 2y, 22% of budgetVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $112,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cycle Effect — $96,892 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFoundation of Trustees for the Family Learning Cen — $56,063 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVIDA FOUNDATION USA — $42,392 over 2y, 15% of budgetSOS OUTREACH — $39,392 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetStarting Hearts — $32,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSwift Eagle Charitable Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAGLE RIVER VALLEY — $24,392 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc — $22,392 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetManaus — $20,700 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCELEBRATE THE BEAT — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVAIL FRIENDS OF DANCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSMALL CHAMPIONS INC — $19,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $19,085 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION — $18,784 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY — $14,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $12,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrio Therapy Partners — $11,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY — $9,392 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…United Way of Eagle R…Rocky Mountain Health…El Pomar FoundationVail Clinic Inc % Vhh…Vail Valley CaresThe Tang FundEagle Valley Mental H…The Summit FoundationSlifer Family Foundat…Slifer Smith & Frampt…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO36.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · United Way of Eagle River Valley · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · Vail Valley Cares · The Tang Fund · Eagle Valley Mental Health · The Summit Foundation · Slifer Family Foundation · Slifer Smith & Frampton 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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