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Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation
Community grants and support of community based programs and services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $539,508 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $584,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,960 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $424k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATION LEGACY FUND | $63,834 |
| WET MTN FIRE PROTECTION DIST | $42,602 |
| WESTCLIFFE CTR FOR THE PERFORM | $41,798 |
| CUSTER CTY SCHOOLS | $37,743 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $33,653 |
| CUSTER CTY SEARCH AND RESCUE | $32,166 |
| HIGH CNTRY RECYCLINGSUSTAINABLE WA | $23,781 |
| WEST CUSTER CTY LIBRARY DISTRICT | $23,073 |
| CUSTER 2020 DBA ALTITUDE COM FITNES | $22,994 |
| WET MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE REHAB | $20,304 |
| MISSION WOLF | $20,136 |
| VALLEY PARK RECREATION AND YOUTH | $18,051 |
| DARK SKIES | $16,020 |
| WET MOUNTAIN BROADCASTING | $15,150 |
| CC COMMUNITY SHARING CENTER | $14,829 |
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 (FY19–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CCCUSTER COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +28% · 41% of their budget
- SISAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST7× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +54%
- CMCRYSTAL MTN CTR FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS7× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +48% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- SDSANGRE DE CRISTO SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue +88%
- CCCUSTER COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $14k
- WCWEST CUSTER CTY LIBRARY DIST2× · 2018–2019 · $12k
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.
Wildlife rehabitation
San juan resource conservation and development council, inc.'s mission is to protect and improve the natural, cultural, historic and economic resources of the eight county area of southwest colorado.
Currently housing and caring for 84 displaced wild mustang horses
Search and rescue missions
Wildlife rehabilitation
Numerous starving or sick animal acquired fed and nourished back to good health and rehomed
Outdoor Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Rescue Ranch Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Education Legacy Fund. 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 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 49 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 Education Legacy Fund ↗
- Who funds CUSTER COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL MTN CTR FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds DARK SKIES INC ↗
- Who funds WET MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE REHABILITATIO ↗
- Who funds WET MOUNTAIN BROADCASTING CORP ↗
- Who funds MISSION WOLF ↗
- Who funds CUSTER 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds CUSTER CTY COMMUNITY SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOARD WESTCLIFFE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ASSISTED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SANGRES ART GUILD ↗
- Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN HAY FEVER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR BUDDIES 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: El Pomar Foundation · 6s Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · 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 Wet Mtn Valley Community 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.
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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