· Public charity
Village Thrift Shop Inc
To accept and resell donated goods and to focus on recycling through sale or proper disposal of unwanted or unneeded items.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $201,180 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $246,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,820 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Estes Park Salud Foundation | $60,000 |
| Estes Park Senior Citizens Center | $30,000 |
| Estes Park Education Foundation | $24,640 |
| Estes Park Post 119 Charitable Foundation | $20,000 |
| Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Success | $20,000 |
| Crossroads Ministry of Estes Park | $20,000 |
| Estes Valley Crisis Advocates | $19,800 |
| Estes Park Club Sports | $6,740 |
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 (FY18–26, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +212% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- EPESTES PARK SALUD FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2026 · $179k · revenue +262%
- CMCROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK7× · 2018–2026 · $137k · revenue +69%
- EVEstes Valley Crisis Advocates Inc9× · 2018–2026 · $134k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- EVESTES VALLEY RECREATION AND PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $18k
- EAESTES ARTS DISTRICT INCone grant, 2018 · $11k
- GHGlen Haven Area Volunteer Fire Departmenone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -63%
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.
The mission is: To develop, foster and support excellence in Trauma and the emergency medical system within the San Luis Valley.
Our organization provides scholarships to students residing in the Estes Valley, supporting their pursuit of higher education. By offering financial assistance, we help alleviate the burden of tuition costs and promote educational…
Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.
Estes Park Health Foundation increases community awareness of Estes Park Health (EPH). The Foundation develops, manages, and distributes funds to assist them in fulfilling their mission.
Educational
The Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (FOMELC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in November 2005. FOMELC is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. We offer volunteer opportunities for all ages, physical…
Dedicated to the management, maintenance, and preservation of trails in the Eden Valley area for recreational and conservation purposes.
The mission of the Englewood Hulls Volunteer Fire Department is the delivery of life safety services. The department provides 24-hour emergency response to a variety of critical situations, primarily fires.
provide Christmas gifts, groceries, school supplies, shoes, clothing, to children of needy families in the Estes Park school district
The Colorado Energy Foundation was incorporated in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) supporting organization of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and seeks to amplify existing philanthropic efforts of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and develop…
Provide emergency firefighting, medical and rescue services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Estes Park Salud Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Renaissance. 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 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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 ESTES PARK SALUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MINISTRY OF ESTES PARK ↗
- Who funds Estes Valley Crisis Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds ESTES VALLEY INVESTMENT IN CHILDHOOD SUC ↗
- Who funds ESTES PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ESTES PARK POST 119 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Nonprofit Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BALLET RENAISSANCE ↗
- Who funds Glen Haven Area Volunteer Fire Departmen ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Learning Place Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEN HAVEN FLOOD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Morriss Family Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Village Thrift Shop 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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