Colorado · Community foundation
Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation
Community grants and support of community based programs and services. The wet mountain valley community foundation strengthens tax exempt organizations and provides donors with charitable giving options.
- $584k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $540k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,150
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,834
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $540k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $682k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $388k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $444k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $273k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $353k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Legacy Fund | $527,075 | 4 | 100% |
| Custer County Search and Rescue Inc | $170,227 | 7 | 41% |
| San Isabel Land Protection Trust | $170,105 | 7 | 11% |
| Crystal Mtn Ctr for the Performing Arts | $139,223 | 7 | 27% |
| Dark Skies Inc | $115,385 | 7 | 48% |
| Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitatio | $110,528 | 7 | 21% |
| Wet Mountain Broadcasting Corp | $108,256 | 7 | 21% |
| Mission Wolf | $91,678 | 7 | 3% |
| Custer 2020 Inc | $85,528 | 7 | 10% |
| Custer Cty Community Sharing Center Inc | $74,097 | 7 | 38% |
Show all 34 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Legacy Fund | $527,075 | 4 | 100% |
| Custer County Search and Rescue Inc | $170,227 | 7 | 41% |
| San Isabel Land Protection Trust | $170,105 | 7 | 11% |
| Crystal Mtn Ctr for the Performing Arts | $139,223 | 7 | 27% |
| Dark Skies Inc | $115,385 | 7 | 48% |
| Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitatio | $110,528 | 7 | 21% |
| Wet Mountain Broadcasting Corp | $108,256 | 7 | 21% |
| Mission Wolf | $91,678 | 7 | 3% |
| Custer 2020 Inc | $85,528 | 7 | 10% |
| Custer Cty Community Sharing Center Inc | $74,097 | 7 | 38% |
| Friends of the West Custer County Library District Inc | $58,386 | 7 | n/a |
| Valley Park Recreation & Youth Center Inc | $57,289 | 5 | n/a |
| All Aboard Westcliffe Inc | $56,836 | 7 | 51% |
| Valley Assisted Living Inc | $56,767 | 7 | 2% |
| Wetmore Volunteer Fire Department | $56,143 | 7 | n/a |
| Sustainable Ways Inc | $55,556 | 4 | n/a |
| Wet Mountain Animal Welfare | $45,794 | 5 | n/a |
| Trails for All | $40,094 | 5 | n/a |
| Sangres Art Guild | $35,967 | 4 | 37% |
| Sangre de Cristo School | $33,885 | 1 | 16% |
| In Concert Classical Music | $25,334 | 3 | n/a |
| Wetmore Community Library | $13,510 | 2 | n/a |
| High Mountain Hay Fever Festival | $11,875 | 2 | 4% |
| Wetmore Community Library | $11,849 | 2 | n/a |
| Wet Mountain Valley Rotary Foundation | $11,107 | 3 | n/a |
| High Altitude Garden Club Ofwestcliffe | $10,375 | 2 | n/a |
| Outdoor Buddies Inc | $7,593 | 1 | 5% |
| Friends of Beckwith Ranch Inc | $6,971 | 1 | 20% |
| Ranch of Hope | $5,829 | 2 | 2% |
| Lighthouse Helpline & Pregnancy Ctr | $5,523 | 1 | 10% |
| Custer County Economic Development Corporation | $5,497 | 1 | n/a |
| American Legion | $5,460 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Uplift | $5,143 | 1 | 8% |
| Veterans Rescue Ranch Ltd | $5,000 | 1 | 14% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($460k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · 6s Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation with peer funders
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About Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation
- How much does Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation give?
- Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $539,508, out of $584,468 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
- Who are Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Education Legacy Fund ($527k), Custer County Search and Rescue Inc ($170k), San Isabel Land Protection Trust ($170k).
- Does Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El Pomar Foundation, 6s Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation based?
- Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundation is based in CO.
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