Colorado · Nonprofit
EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH
EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,618 to it, the largest being EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ($298,533). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Eagle River Youth Coalition Inc Dba Mountain Youth does
Mission
To continuously and collaboratively improve the lives of youth in the most powerful ways possible.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa) provides coalition support to ultimately reduce substance abuse disorders and support healthy opportunities. They provide funds to operate mountain youth's schoolbased educational programs for students, family education programs, youth engagement and advocacy, and environmental strategies such as policy and systems-level work. The comprehensive work plan through samhsa grants funds enable mountain youth to reduce risky behaviors while boosting assets among youth and the broader community.
$200,369 spent19% of program spendingThe colorado office of behavioral health (obh) changing community norms program reduces alcohol and drug abuse by promoting healthy, drugfree lifestyles. The program focuses on substance use and abuse education, critical environmental awareness, alternative transportation options, and the overall costs and consequences of making poor choices. Through the office of behavioral health, the eagle river youth coalition has convened the community around healthy and safe opportunities for youth and families. These include in school prevention education, parent engagement, and environmental strategies to build a stronger community.
$166,511 spent16% of program spendingCommunities that care (ctc) is a multiyear community process focusing on shifting systems and policies to boost supports for youth and the community. Ctc aims to identify risk and protective factors, and convene the community to boost supports for protective factors tomaintain these as strengths, and to decrease risk factors such as substance misuse, lack of compliance with laws, and adult/community norms favorable to substance use.
$239,819 spent23% of program spendingOther programs supporting youth in the community.
$442,308 spent42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,049,007.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $2.6M (+109%).
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 80% · 2021 75% · 2022 73% · 2023 44% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Hartel Stecher
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $86k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH’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
EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 37% · 2019 82% · 2020 44% · 2021 48% · 2022 70% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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
23% of EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
94% of EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH?
- EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,618 to it, the largest being EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ($298,533). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $886,618 in grants to EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH?
- EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $298,533 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION INC DBA MOUNTAIN YOUTH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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