Colorado · Nonprofit
Telluride Mountain Club
Telluride Mountain Club (Colorado) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,660,025 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($922,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $864k
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Telluride Mountain Club does
Mission
TMtC serves as a community catalyst for sustainable outdoor recreation opportunities. We envision a thriving, diverse outdoor community made possible through collaboration, education, responsive action and equitable access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trails planning; trails scouting; trails maintenance; trails construction and implementation. Telluride Mountain Club works independently, with the USFS, with town and county governments, with other nonprofits, and with for-profit businesses to preserve and enhance outdoor recreation opportunities in the Telluride region. The club also helps educate users on proper trail etiquette.
$309,827 spentof which $47,087 as grants$702,816 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe Peter Inglis Avalanche Education Fund (PI Avy Fund) provides avalanche education scholarships to local community members in an effort to increase avalanche awareness and backcountry safety by decreasing the financial burden of taking an avalanche course.
$12,976 spent$19,955 earned by the program4% of program spendingTelluride Via Ferrata Stewardship. Help coordinate the Via Ferrata Sustainability Fund to help preserve and protect Tellurides unique Via Ferrata route and keep it free and open to the public. Work with the USFS on necessary programming for them to adopt the route into the USFS inventory.
$921 spent$20,560 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,724.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $981k to $1.5M (+56%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 24% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Telluride Mountain Club’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% 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 4 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $2k → $403k.
10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $62k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Telluride Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Telluride Mountain Club raised.
From the IRS filings of Telluride Mountain Club’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Telluride Mountain Club has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 Mountain Club.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 89% · 2019 38% · 2020 38% · 2021 85% · 2022 25% · 2023 28% — 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
56% of Telluride Mountain Club's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
65% of Telluride Mountain Club'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 $936k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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
Telluride Mountain Club runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Telluride Mountain Club
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Telluride Mountain Club: 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 Mountain Club?
- Telluride Mountain Club (Colorado) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,660,025 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($922,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Telluride Mountain Club have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,660,025 in grants to Telluride Mountain Club, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Telluride Mountain Club?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $922,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Telluride Mountain Club 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing