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TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,063 to it, the largest being YVONNE & MICHAEL MARSH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($125,692). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$257k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$328k
Net assets
$184k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 97%
01What it does

What Telluride Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide support for the telluride community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Experiential and classroom experience grants- paid to supplement the classroom budget for experiential field trips and other hands on learning experiences in the classroom. Teacher appreciation and continuing education. Magnet grants-paid to teachers to help offset costs for education, home purchases, childcare and commuting expenses.

    $173,887 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,887.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($102k)2021 Revenue 64 ($64k) Expenses 147 ($97k) Net assets 68 ($70k)2022 Revenue 106 ($107k) Expenses 146 ($97k) Net assets 78 ($80k)2023 Revenue 121 ($123k) Expenses 160 ($106k) Net assets 94 ($97k)2024 Revenue 115 ($116k) Expenses 138 ($91k) Net assets 124 ($127k)2025 Revenue 255 ($257k) Expenses 304 ($201k) Net assets 180 ($184k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (255)Expenses (304)Net assets (180)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $127k to $184k (+45%).

$103k
$70k
$83k
$102k
$127k
$184k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’20
−$33k
’21
$10k
’22
$17k
’23
$25k
’24
$56k
’25
11
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $119k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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

TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46% 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 TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

38%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 41% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 41% · 2022 96% · 2023 84% — 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

40% of TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.

NY
MA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

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In Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,063 to it, the largest being YVONNE & MICHAEL MARSH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($125,692). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $328,063 in grants to TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
YVONNE & MICHAEL MARSH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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