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Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association

Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,194,849 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($1,048,485). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$560k
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association does

Mission

The VVMTA's mission is to connect our coummunity to the outdoors through sustainable recreation. The VVMTA advocates for soft surface trails, manages trail stewardship programs, maintains and builds trails, coordinates and trains volunteers, educates outdoor recreational users, and creates opportunities to access the outdoors.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The VVMTA manages trail advocacy programs, coordinates and trains volunteers, educates outdoor recreational users, organizes events, and contributes its talents, guidance and time to support local land managers in various soft surface trail initiatives.

    $892,155 spentof which $739,231 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $892,155.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($80k)2018 Revenue 194 ($153k) Expenses 148 ($63k) Net assets 213 ($170k)2019 Revenue 267 ($211k) Expenses 378 ($162k) Net assets 275 ($219k)2020 Revenue 333 ($263k) Expenses 874 ($375k) Net assets 134 ($107k)2021 Revenue 643 ($508k) Expenses 869 ($373k) Net assets 304 ($242k)2022 Revenue 1324 ($1.0M) Expenses 2072 ($888k) Net assets 503 ($400k)2023 Revenue 1574 ($1.2M) Expenses 2832 ($1.2M) Net assets 540 ($429k)2024 Revenue 1573 ($1.2M) Expenses 2594 ($1.1M) Net assets 705 ($560k)
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Revenue (1573)Expenses (2594)Net assets (705)Peer revenue range

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 $485k to $648k (+34%).

$80k
$171k
$220k
$122k
$266k
$427k
$485k
$648k
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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.

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2018
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2022
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 45% · 2020 59% · 2021 49% · 2022 23% · 2023 41% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
$90k
’18
$49k
’19
−$112k
’20
$135k
’21
$158k
’22
$30k
’23
$131k
’24
5.9
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed999101010
Joined·+0+0+1+0+2
No longer listed·00002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $29k → $432k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Mountain Bike Association’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 Mountain Bike Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

81% 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 Mountain Bike Association.

48%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 78% · 2019 80% · 2020 85% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 31% — 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

50% of Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.

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CO
TX

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

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)48% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $937k on record.

Federal$937k
grants $937kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$937k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association

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

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association?
Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,194,849 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($1,048,485). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,194,849 in grants to Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association?
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,048,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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