Bootstraps, Inc.
Helping mountain-area students reach their educational and career dreams by providing scholarships and interest-free loans to students from the Evergreen, Conifer, Clear Creek and Platte Canyon school areas.
About Bootstraps, Inc.
Bootstraps, Inc. is a Colorado-based 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 84-0800861) that awards scholarships and interest-free loans to graduating high school students and postsecondary students from the Evergreen/Conifer mountain communities.
The organization runs both traditional college scholarships and career-training awards (including vocational and certificate programs), operates a continuing loan program for returning students, and offers donor-directed Create-a-Scholarship/Create-a-Loan options plus matching and growth funds to expand award capacity.
Notable achievements
Longstanding local impact
Bootstraps has operated since 1945, maintaining a continuous local scholarship/loan program supporting mountain-area students for multiple decades.
Recent program scale (2025)
In 2025 Bootstraps reported active impact with dozens of recipients and hundreds of thousands of dollars awarded during the year (site-reported 69 award recipients and $425K awarded in 2025).
New permanent memorial scholarships
In the last few years Bootstraps established permanent memorial scholarships (for example a scholarship created in late 2022 to honor a local educator), expanding named-award capacity.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $2.0M
- Annual revenue
- $499K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 84-0800861
- Location
- Evergreen, CO
- Website
- www.bootstrapsinc.org
- 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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