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United Way of the Yampa Valley

Steamboat Springs, CO · EIN 84-0920741. Reported 101 grants totalling $1,627,183 to 37 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$1,627,183granted, 2020-2023
87%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 87% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $42,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
72 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Steamboat Springs Discovery Learning CenterSteamboat Spr, CO$144,500642023
Soroco PreschoolSteamboat Sprin, CO$127,975742023
Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse AssociationSteamboat Spr, CO$109,400442023
Partners in Routt CountySteamboat Spr, CO$102,750442023
Better TomorrowSteamboat Springs, CO$91,615442023
Totally Kids IncGrand Jct, CO$88,000442023
Boys and Girls Club of SteambCraig, CO$74,500442023
Young Tracks IncSteamboat Spr, CO$73,966442023
Colorado Nonprofit Development CenterDenver, CO$69,595442023
Rout County Council on Aging IncSteamboat Spr, CO$62,000442023
Yampa Valley Community FoundationSteamboat Spr, CO$61,500442023
Hayden Valley PreschoolHayden, CO$60,000442023
Heritage Park PreschoolSteamboat Sprin, CO$55,000442023
Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership IncSteamboat Springs, CO$48,000332023
Yampa Valley Autism ProgramSteamboat Spr, CO$47,500442023
Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide IncSteamboat Spr, CO$45,000442023
Soroco Baseball SoftballOak Creek, CO$44,000332022
Steamboat Springs Sd PreschooSteamboat Sprin, CO$37,500332023
North Routt PreschoolClark, CO$34,000332022
North Routt Community Charter SchoolClark, CO$33,144222023
Steamboat Reading IncSteamboat Spr, CO$31,000332023
Lift Up of Routt CountySteamboat Spr, CO$25,000332023
Community Budget Center of CraigCraig, CO$22,355112023
Horizons Specialized Services IncSteamboat Spr, CO$17,500112023
Connections 4 KidsCraig, CO$14,170112023
South Routt Community CorporationOak Creek, CO$14,000112023
Nw Colorado Health - HavenHayden, CO$13,500212020
Love Inc of the Yampa ValleyCraig, CO$11,500112023
Grand Futures Prevention CoalSteamboat Sprin, CO$10,000112020
The Church at MeekerMeeker, CO$10,000112023
Dolly Parton Imagination LibrSevierville, TN$8,471112022
Human Resources Center IncRangely, CO$7,500112023
Booktrails IncSteamboat Spr, CO$7,000112020
Memorial Hospital of Craig Foundation IncCraig, CO$7,000112023
Senior Citizens Action GroupCraig, CO$7,000112023
Northwest Rocky Mountain CASA IncSteamboat Spr, CO$5,712112023
Young LifeColorado Spgs, CO$5,530112023

22 of 37 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 8 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
11 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202023$368,975$15,000
202122$372,460$15,000
202223$334,337$13,500
202333$551,411$14,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Colorado
$1.6M
Tennessee
$8K

Down to the city

Steamboat Spr, CO
$733K
Steamboat Sprin, CO
$230K
Steamboat Springs, CO
$140K
Craig, CO
$137K
Grand Jct, CO
$88K
Hayden, CO
$74K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Colorado Gives Foundation19 shared recipientsCraig-Scheckman Family Foundation15 shared recipientsYampa Valley Medical Center Foundation15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsTemple Hoyne Buell Foundation9 shared recipientsAnschutz Family Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from United Way of the Yampa Valley's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 774005, Steamboat Springs, CO, 80477.

EIN 84-0920741 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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