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Vail Centre

Vail Centre (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,690 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$726k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$-62830
1/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Vail Centre does

Mission

We design interactive learning experiences that bring together great thinkers and doers, state and local groups, university and educational partners and renowned experts from around the world. Here, individuals and organizations convene on an inspirational mountain campus delving into academic ideas and real world challenges, creating meaningful connections and life-long friendships.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

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The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($840k) Expenses 100 ($696k)2018 Revenue 86 ($726k) Expenses 113 ($784k)
20172018
Revenue (86)Expenses (113)

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 $216k to $32k (−85%).

$216k
$32k
20172018
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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$144k
’17
−$58k
’18
0.0
months of
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.

20172018
Listed1211
Joined·+0
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $26k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Vail Centre’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

Vail Centre has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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

72% 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 Vail Centre.

21%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 38% — 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.

Where its funders are

92% of Vail Centre's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

OH
CO

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

’17
’18
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Vail Centre

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 19%Fundraising 11%

Governance

11
board members
82%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vail Centre: 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 Vail Centre?
Vail Centre (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,690 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Vail Centre have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $46,690 in grants to Vail Centre, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Vail Centre?
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Vail Centre 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 7 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