Colorado · Nonprofit
Colorado Ski Museum Inc
Colorado Ski Museum Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,124 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($66,520). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $314k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $371k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Colorado Ski Museum Inc does
Mission
To preserve, appreciate and encourage the legacy of skiing andsnowboarding in colorado by increasing knowledge of and providinginspiration for skiing/snowboarding; and to collect and preserve(both in the short and long run) colorado ski current and historicalphotographs, films, exhibits, artifacts, equipment and clothing,representing over 130 years of colorado skiing, including the legacy of the 10th mountain army divison as it related to colorado and world war ii and beyond. Also daily films, lectures and presentations are given related to the 10th mountain army div. Colorado ski museum also recognizes in their hall of fame those who have made an impact with respect to colorado skiing/snowboarding. Facility is open on a dailybasis with free admission. The museum provides free tours of the museum and surounding vail mountain area. Thousands have been served, educated and inspired by the colorado ski museum.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Curation of colorado ski museum providing visitors admissions, films, exhibits and accumulation and preservation of historical skiing photographs, artifacts, website and clothing. Colorado ski museum encourages the sport of skiing/snowboarding through its exhibits, photographs and posters. Also provides a hall of fame exhibit dedicated to those who helped colorado make advances in the sport of skiing and snowboarding. The colorado ski museum educates the public regarding the 10th mountain ski division of the us army and its historical activities. The colorado skimuseum recognizes contributors to the sport and is involved digitizing 100 historic films & 300 videos spanning 70 years of ski history in colorado. Colorado ski museum is also in the process of expanding and updating the facilities for easier accessand a better overall educational experience.
$283,453 spent$12,315 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $283,453.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $3.4M (+197%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 8% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 5% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Colorado Ski Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Diane Boyer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $165k → $16k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Colorado Ski Museum Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Colorado Ski Museum Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Colorado Ski Museum Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 88% · 2019 55% · 2020 25% · 2021 52% · 2022 50% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of Colorado Ski Museum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of Colorado Ski Museum Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $183k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Colorado Ski Museum Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Colorado Ski Museum Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Colorado Ski Museum Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Colorado Ski Museum Inc?
- Colorado Ski Museum Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,124 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($66,520). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Colorado Ski Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $371,124 in grants to Colorado Ski Museum Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colorado Ski Museum Inc?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colorado Ski Museum Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing