VAIL VALLEY CARES, INC.
Vail Valley Cares Thrifty Shops is an ecumenical Christian help organization dedicated to sharing the love of God by meeting people’s needs.
About VAIL VALLEY CARES, INC.
Vail Valley Cares operates two Thrifty Shop locations (Eagle and Edwards) that resell donated clothing, furniture and household items; net revenue from those stores is returned to the local community through grants, scholarships and individual benevolence. The organization emphasizes charitable ecology by recycling usable donations and keeping items out of the landfill.
Vail Valley Cares (EIN 26-1627166) is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit. In recent years the organization has increased its annual grantmaking: $525,000 distributed in 2023, $585,500 in 2024 (a record year), and continuing grant awards in 2025, bringing the organization’s cumulative grants, scholarships and benevolence to approximately $6.8 million.
Notable achievements
Record annual grantmaking (2024)
Distributed $585,500 to local nonprofit partners at the 2024 grant-recipient breakfast, the largest single-year grant total in the organization’s history.
Multi‑year community investment
Since launching its grant program in 2000, Vail Valley Cares has returned millions to the community; the organization’s grants, scholarships and benevolence now total roughly $6.8 million.
Decades of thrift operations
Operating Thrifty Shop locations since the 1990s (stores established in the mid-1990s) that sustainably repurpose donated goods and fund local charitable work.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $4.4M
- Annual revenue
- $3.1M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 26-1627166
- Location
- Edwards, CO
- Website
- vailvalleycares.com
- On Mahalo since
- November 2025
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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