Vail Valley Cares
Edwards, CO · EIN 26-1627166. Reported 78 grants totalling $1,091,500 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Vail Valley Cares, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P29) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 10% 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.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $16,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vail Valley Charitable Fund Inc | Edwards, CO | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bright Future Foundation for Eagle County | Avon, CO | $98,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Aspen Hope Center | Basalt, CO | $91,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hospice of the Valley Inc | Glenwood Springs, CO | $64,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $54,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities | Glenwood Springs, CO | $50,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Samaritan Counseling Center | Edwards, CO | $50,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| CASA of the Continental Divide | Dillon, CO | $48,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Suicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley | Eagle, CO | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Small Champions Inc | Vail, CO | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Life | Colorado Spgs, CO | $34,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Caregiver Connections | Avon, CO | $33,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| YOUTHPOWER365 | Avon, CO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eagle Valley Mental Health | Vail, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eagle Valley Senior Life Inc | Avon, CO | $22,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Educational Foundation of Eagle Cou | Avon, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Eagle County School District | Eagle, CO | $19,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountain Family Health Centers | Glenwood Spgs, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Claire of Assissi School | Edwards, CO | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vida Foundation USA | Gypsum, CO | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vail Christian Academy | Edwards, CO | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vail Christian High School | Edwards, CO | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Literacy Project | Avon, CO | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Eagle County Colorado Crime Stoppers Inc | Eagle, CO | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eagle Valley Community Foundation | Vail, CO | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 4 Eagle Foundation | Wolcott, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eagle County Emergency Responders Fund | Edwards, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Education Foundation of Eagle County | Edwards, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vail Valley Works Inc | Edwards, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eagle River Youth Coalition Inc | Edwards, CO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Navigators | Eagle, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Clare of Assisi Catholic Parish in Edwards | Edwards, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation | Avon, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vail Christian Academy | Edwards, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vail Christian School Inc | Edwards, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cycle Effect | Eagle, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lift-Up | Rifle, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mountain Dreamers | Frisco, CO | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Class Accessibility Foundation | Vail, CO | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bond - Mccoy Volunteer Fire | Mc Coy, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eagle River Presbyterian Church | Avon, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Bird Creative Community | Gypsum, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Canyon High School | Eagle, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Swift Eagle Charitable Fndtn | Avon, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Methodist Church Eagle Valle | Eagle, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mind Springs Health Dba Colorado We | Vail, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 46 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Eagle Valley Behavioral Health
Cash Free Counseling Sessions - Catholic Charities
Emergency Assistance and Community Integ - Speakup Reachout
suicide prevention crisis line - CASA of the Continental Divide
Advocates for children in the court syst - Small Champions
sport programs for children with disabil - Eagle County School District
AVID Program Professional Development
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 46 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $287,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $328,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 33 | $476,000 | $10,000 |
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
95% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- 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 Vail Valley Cares's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1242, Edwards, CO, 81632.
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