Colorado · Nonprofit
GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION
GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,807,157 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Gunnison Valley Health Foundation does
Mission
Support gunnison valley health in the delivery of high quality healthcare in gunnison county and surrounding areas. Our vision is to inspire the recognition of gunnison valley health as an innovative, (continued on schedule o)award-winning healthcare system know for clinical excellence, comprehensive patient care and delivering results that promote lifelong health and wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, the foundation supported school-based clinician services at the gunnison watershed school district and western colorado university, hired a new bilingual patient navigator to expand health equity, nursing scholarships for advanced education programs, tuition assistance for emt courses, support for hospice patients and relatives, advanced medical services for home health patients and pre and post partum services for spanish speaking mothers receiving support through the gvh family birth center, funds to support employees with linkedin learning and headspace subscriptions and workforce development scholarships for nurses and behavioral health therapists seeking advanced education. (continued on schedule o)in 2024, the Gunnison Valley Health Foundation continued to raise funds for a capital campaign "seconds save lives" to build a new ems/paramedics station.
$3,709,800 spentof which $3,709,800 as grants100% of program spendingThe high peaks employee club is a volunteer organization within gunnison valley health. Employees voluntarily have a designated amount withheld from each pay check that goes to a fund managed by the gvh foundation. A committee, following predetermined guidelines, oversees the distribution of funds to fellow employees in times of crisis. All proceeds collected are used solely to support employees not only in times of crisis but also during the holiday season when employees that can not financially provide a celebration for their family. In 2024 a total of 15 familys were supported through giving of emergency and holiday funds.
$12,455 spentof which $12,455 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,722,255.
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 $4.6M to $6.7M (+46%).
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 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $11k → $752k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $225k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 99% · 2019 61% · 2020 48% · 2021 35% · 2022 50% · 2023 27% — 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
42% of GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Gunnison Valley Hospital · exempt
- Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center · exempt
- Gunnison Valley Health Care Services LLC · partnership
- Alpine Surgery Center LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,807,157 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,807,157 in grants to GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION 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.
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 34 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