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Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation

Steamboat Springs, CO · EIN 31-1806773. Reported 67 grants totalling $5,226,649 to 27 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

27organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$5,226,649granted, 2020-2023
73%of grantees funded again the next year
56%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. For Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 56% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 73% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,000 and $43,000; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $994,541. 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
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
5 grants
$250,000 Or More
6 grants

3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,611,337 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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
Yampa Valley Medical CenterSteamboat Spr, CO$2,905,949442023
Steamboat Health & Recreation AssociationSteamboat Springs, CO$500,000222021
Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse AssociationSteamboat Spr, CO$410,000542023
Steamboat School District RE2Steamboat Springs, CO$370,000442023
Better TomorrowSteamboat Springs, CO$206,000542023
South Routt School DistrictOak Creek, CO$118,000442023
Hayden School DistrictHayden, CO$93,000332022
Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide IncSteamboat Spr, CO$81,800442023
Horizons Specialized Services IncSteamboat Spr, CO$75,000442023
Partners in Routt CountySteamboat Spr, CO$65,400442023
Integrated CommunitySteamboat Spr, CO$59,000442023
Colorado West Regional Mental Health Inc Dba Mind Springs HealthGrand Junction, CO$46,000222023
Colorado Mountain College Foundation IncGlenwood Spgs, CO$35,000112022
Yampa Valley Autism ProgramSteamboat Spr, CO$35,000332023
North Routt Community Charter SchoolClark, CO$28,000222023
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood IncDenver, CO$28,000222021
Lift Up of Routt CountySteamboat Spr, CO$26,000332023
Court Sports for Life FoundationSteamboat Spr, CO$25,000112022
City of Steamboat SpringsSteamboat Springs, CO$18,600112022
West Routt Fire Protection DistrictHayden, CO$16,200112023
Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership IncSteamboat Springs, CO$15,700222023
Community Budget Center of CraigCraig, CO$15,000112023
Boys & Girls Club of Northwest ColoradoCraig, CO$14,000112021
Rout County Council on Aging IncSteamboat Spr, CO$12,000112020
Grand FuturesSteamboat Springs, CO$10,000112020
Mountain Village Montessori Charter SchoolSteamboat Spr, CO$10,000112020
Northwest Colorado Center for IndependenceSteamboat Spr, CO$8,000112020

17 of 27 (63%) 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 10 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 17 of 27 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
6 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202018$1,769,541$23,000
202115$1,412,977$25,000
202218$1,109,622$16,800
202316$934,509$16,100

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

Steamboat Spr, CO
$3.7M
Steamboat Springs, CO
$1.1M
Oak Creek, CO
$118K
Hayden, CO
$109K
Grand Junction, CO
$46K
Glenwood Spgs, CO
$35K
Craig, CO
$29K
Clark, CO
$28K

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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 Foundation18 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Yampa Valley15 shared recipientsCraig-Scheckman Family Foundation13 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 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 $20,000 -- 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 Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation'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 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1100 Central Park Drive, Steamboat Springs, CO, 80487.

EIN 31-1806773 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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