Colorado · Nonprofit
Yampa Valley Autism Program
Yampa Valley Autism Program (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,592,460 to it, the largest being CRAIG-SCHECKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($325,543). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Yampa Valley Autism Program does
Mission
YVAP helps neurodivergent youth aged 3-21 by providing individual therapy, social skills integration, community partnerships, education support, workplace readiness, community education, and family resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Therapy Programs: We use therapy to empower individuals by teaching essential skills like social interaction and executive functioning. Our therapy program, led by two Board Certified Behavior Analysts, focuses on positive reinforcement, kindness, and respect for differences, helping children and youth achieve their goals and live their best lives.
$336,150 spent$534,600 earned by the program55% of program spendingEducation Support: From the Community Cultivation program, offering Extended School Year services to prevent summer learning loss, to the Strides transition program teaching life skills in real-world environments, we provide crucial support for students aged 12-21. We also offer behavior consultation and educator training to enrich the educational experience for neurodivergent students in collaboration with local school districts.
$162,190 spent27% of program spendingCommunity Partnerships: The Community Partnerships program empowers neurodivergent children to participate fully in group activities by providing one-on-one support through trained paraprofessionals. By partnering with local activity providers, we create inclusive environments where all children can develop social skills, and peers learn about acceptance. This collaboration replaces the Special Activity Support program and offers training to help staff recognize and accommodate various developmental disabilities, fostering growth and understanding within the community.
$71,522 spent12% of program spendingWork-Readiness: YVAP works with youth aged 15-21 to prepare for the workplace and explore job opportunities that fit their skills, abilities, and interests. Once they land a job, YVAP helps teach the skills needed to perform the tasks and works with employers to identify and implement accommodations when needed.
$39,964 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $609,826.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $870k to $1.4M (+62%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Yampa Valley Autism Program’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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
Heidi Mendisco
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Rosanne Iversen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $69k → $161k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Yampa Valley Autism Program’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
Yampa Valley Autism Program has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
28% 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 Yampa Valley Autism Program.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 39% · 2019 38% · 2020 28% · 2021 28% · 2022 27% · 2023 37% — 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
79% of Yampa Valley Autism Program's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
58% of Yampa Valley Autism Program's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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.
Against its field
Yampa Valley Autism Program runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Yampa Valley Autism Program
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program?
- Yampa Valley Autism Program (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,592,460 to it, the largest being CRAIG-SCHECKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($325,543). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Yampa Valley Autism Program have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,592,460 in grants to Yampa Valley Autism Program, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Yampa Valley Autism Program?
- CRAIG-SCHECKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Yampa Valley Autism Program 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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