Colorado · Nonprofit
VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP
VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,457 to it, the largest being CAREERWISE COLORADO ($22,917). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $285k
What Vail Valley Partnership does
Mission
Our mission is focused around five primary goals: building communities to which residents, visitors and investors are attracted; promoting the communities; striving to ensure future prosperity via a pro-business climate; representing the unified voice of the employer community; and reducing transactional friction through well-functioning networks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vail Valley Partnership is dedicated to ensuring local business success and fostering regional economic vitality by offering local business tools & resources, promoting the eagle river valley to destination guests, and initiating economic development efforts. The partnership's efforts in the community include three distinct yet connected roles: economic growth & advocacy- we work to ensure the vail valley's economic health stays strong for years to come. We work to help existing vail valley businesses thrive and recruit new businesses that have the potential to support our local economy. Our primary focus areas include business retention & workforce and talent pipeline development. Regional chamber of commerce- we work to provide the valley's businesses with networking, educational, and collaborative programming opportunities with the goal of strengthening our local community. Our primary focus areas include educational programming, advocacy, networking & connections, and other small business support efforts. Tourism development- we work to promote the entire vail valley as a year-round destination to potential in-state, out-of-state and international visitors through…
$932,834 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $932,834.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $387k to $693k (+79%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 15% · 2019 15% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 16% · 2023 26% · 2024 26% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Chris Romer
CEO
Board chair
Mike Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $40.
Left out of every figure on this page: $254k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Youthpower365). These are real filings, and they are not money VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP’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 PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
98% 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 PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP: 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 PARTNERSHIP?
- VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,457 to it, the largest being CAREERWISE COLORADO ($22,917). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $33,457 in grants to VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP?
- CAREERWISE COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $22,917 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VAIL VALLEY PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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