Our vision is simple:
To ensure there is a Telluride Mushroom Festival every year.
The TMF Future Fund is a restricted sustainability fund created to ensure the Telluride Mushroom Festival remains a thriving annual tradition for generations to come.
For more than four decades, ticket sales have been the primary source of funding for the festival. But as the festival has grown, so have the costs of producing it. Today, ticket revenue alone can no longer support the long-term sustainability of an event of this scale.
The Future Fund represents the next chapter in TMF’s evolution.
Contributions are restricted to strengthening the festival’s long-term financial resilience, helping TMF navigate economic uncertainty, respond to changing conditions, and confidently plan for the future.
As the festival has grown, so have the costs of producing it.
Like many nonprofit organizations and live events, the Telluride Mushroom Festival faces rising expenses each year, from venues and staffing to equipment, insurance, transportation, and logistics. Ticket sales remain an essential source of support, but they are no longer enough to sustain the festival on their own. While sponsors help significantly, Team Mushroom needs more sponsor support as well. Without a financial buffer, in years where ticket sales are less than previous years, the financial impact can make it difficult not only to produce the current festival, but also to confidently plan for the next one.
To ensure this legacy tradition continues to thrive for decades to come, we’ve created the TMF Future Fund: a restricted sustainability fund dedicated to protecting the future of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.
Join Us in Protecting the Future
The Telluride Mushroom Festival exists because of an extraordinary community of people who believe in the power of fungi to advance science and connect with one another and the natural world.
By helping us build the first $100,000 of the TMF Future Fund, you’re joining a community of Founding Future Fund Members committed to ensuring this festival continues to thrive for decades to come. Your donation will help protect a tradition, strengthen a community, and ensure that future generations can gather in Telluride to celebrate the incredible world of fungi.
A gift of $500 or more makes you a Founding Future Fund Member, unlocks exclusive year-round benefits, and helps build the first $100,000 toward a stronger, more sustainable future for the Telluride Mushroom Festival.
Join us. Invest in the future. Help ensure there’s a Telluride Mushroom Festival next year and every year after that.
