Colorado · Nonprofit
Vail Valley Cares
Vail Valley Cares (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,420 to it, the largest being BLANCHE C HILL FOUNDATION ($42,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Vail Valley Cares does
Mission
Vail Valley Cares is an ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to sharing the love of God by helping meet the local communitys needs. The organization owns and operates two Thrift stores in Eagle County, Colorado. All goods are donated and re-sold to the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization owns and operates two local thrift stores in Eagle County, Colorado. Goods are donated by the community and sold in the stores. In 2024, the organization distributed over $588,000 to local non-profit organizations in the area and $52,000 in scholarship funds to a local community college.
$2,866,232 spentof which $640,603 as grants$2,956,095 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,866,232.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.0M to $4.4M (+10%).
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.
0% of Vail Valley Cares’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Greg Osteen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Valley Cares’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 Valley Cares leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 Valley Cares.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Vail Valley Cares's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Vail Valley Cares is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Vail Valley Cares
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Valley Cares: 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 Valley Cares?
- Vail Valley Cares (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,420 to it, the largest being BLANCHE C HILL FOUNDATION ($42,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vail Valley Cares have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $67,420 in grants to Vail Valley Cares, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vail Valley Cares?
- BLANCHE C HILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vail Valley Cares 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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