How much does Vail Valley Foundation give?

Vail Valley Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $2,980,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Vail Valley Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (45%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (17%).

Who are Vail Valley Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Youthpower365 ($7.6M), Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc ($2.2M), Eagle River Valley Childcare ($1.6M).

Does Vail Valley Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Vail Valley Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, United Way of Eagle River Valley.

Where is Vail Valley Foundation based?

Vail Valley Foundation is based in CO.

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Colorado · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $19,177
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,234,013
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 25; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $41M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Vail Valley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$2.9M	10%
FY2024	10	$3.0M	10%
FY2023	12	$1.8M	17%
FY2022	20	$2.6M	20%
FY2021	25	$1.7M	80%
FY2020	7	$992k	14%
FY2019	10	$691k	20%
FY2018	8	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Youthpower365	$7,620,103	8	24%
Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc	$2,169,314	5	9%
Eagle River Valley Childcare	$1,631,852	2	62%
Walking Mountains	$979,175	8	5%
Eagle Valley Family Assistance Fund	$475,000	2	18%
Ski and Snowboard Club Vail	$316,677	8	1%
Bravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival	$265,670	7	1%
Bright Future Foundation for Eagle County	$146,392	5	4%
Lake County Community Fund	$140,392	2	22%
Vail Mountain School	$112,000	5	0%

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All grantees of Vail Valley Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Youthpower365	$7,620,103	8	24%
Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc	$2,169,314	5	9%
Eagle River Valley Childcare	$1,631,852	2	62%
Walking Mountains	$979,175	8	5%
Eagle Valley Family Assistance Fund	$475,000	2	18%
Ski and Snowboard Club Vail	$316,677	8	1%
Bravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival	$265,670	7	1%
Bright Future Foundation for Eagle County	$146,392	5	4%
Lake County Community Fund	$140,392	2	22%
Vail Mountain School	$112,000	5	0%
The Cycle Effect	$96,892	5	3%
The Salvation Army	$61,892	2	n/a
Foundation of Trustees for the Family Learning Cen	$56,063	5	2%
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver	$55,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity Vail Valley Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Vida Foundation USA	$42,392	2	15%
Sos Outreach	$39,392	2	1%
Small Champions of Eagle County	$34,500	3	n/a
Starting Hearts	$32,000	2	5%
Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation	$30,000	1	9%
United Way of Eagle River Valley	$24,392	2	4%
Vail Valley Charitable Fund Inc	$22,392	2	3%
Manaus	$20,700	1	2%
Celebrate the Beat	$20,000	1	3%
Vail Friends of Dance Inc	$20,000	2	14%
Small Champions Inc	$19,500	3	3%
Rocky Ridge Music Center Foundation	$19,085	2	2%
Eagle Valley Child Care Association	$18,784	1	1%
Neighborhood Navigat of Eagle County	$15,000	1	n/a
Vail Performing Arts Academy	$14,000	2	3%
Roundup River Ranch	$12,600	1	0%
The Literacy Project	$12,000	1	n/a
Trio Therapy Partners	$11,500	1	6%
Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
My Future Pathways Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Evolve Thrive Joy Youth Non- Profit	$10,000	1	n/a
Suicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley	$9,392	1	1%
Mountain Recreation Metropolitan District	$9,392	1	n/a
Roundup River Rranch	$6,000	1	n/a

Vail Valley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Vail Valley Foundation

How much does Vail Valley Foundation give?: Vail Valley Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $2,980,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vail Valley Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (45%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Vail Valley Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Youthpower365 ($7.6M), Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc ($2.2M), Eagle River Valley Childcare ($1.6M).
Does Vail Valley Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vail Valley Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, United Way of Eagle River Valley.
Where is Vail Valley Foundation based?: Vail Valley Foundation is based in CO.