Yampa River Endowment Fund

The primary purpose of the Yampa River Endowment Fund is to enhance water security for communities, agriculture, industry, the economy and the natural environment in the Yampa River Basin by providing funding and supporting the efforts of other organizations and individuals to implement:

1. voluntary, market-based water leases and releases from reservoirs that will enhance river flows;
2. restoration actions (on private and public land) that will improve riparian, in-channel, streambank and aquatic habitat; and
3. improvements or enhancements to water storage, distribution, management and infrastructure in the Yampa River Basin

that will generate combined agricultural, industrial, environmental and recreational benefits as well as to undertake fundraising activities with the objective of building, managing and administering a substantial fund – The Yampa River Endowment Fund.

To donate to the Yampa River Endowment Fund by check:

Yampa Valley Community Foundation
348 Oak Street
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487

* Please make the check out to YVCF and note the name of the Fund in the memo line.

This is a Designated Fund of the Yampa Valley Community Foundation. Donations are irrevocable assets of the Foundation to be used for the charitable purpose stated above.