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Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

$895k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$168k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$2.2MFood & Nutrition$516k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $700k
$48,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST$167,850
COLORADO OPEN LANDS$159,750
COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL$155,953
COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST$153,600
LA PLATA OPEN SPACE CONSERVANCY$62,500
CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST$48,500
DOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY$42,689
PALMER LAND CONSERVANCY$41,300
CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY$36,000
MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST$16,340
MONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY: $43k → 3%Aspen Valley Land Trust: $15k → 6%COLORADO CATTLEMAN'S LAND TRUST: $20k → 7%Eagle Valley Land Trust: $7k → 7%MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $36k → 7%PALMER LAND CONSERVANCY: $41k → 9%CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $49k → 10%CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY: $36k → 10%COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST: $173k → 11%San Isabel Land Protection Tr: $10k → 11%ESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST: $43k → 11%The Nature Conservancy: $10k → 12%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL: $200k → 12%RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $190k → 14%MONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $127k → 15%Colorado Cattlemans Land Trus: $14k → 7%MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $16k → 7%PALMER LAND CONSERVANCY: $39k → 9%CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY: $20k → 10%COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST: $154k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL: $160k → 12%RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $168k → 14%MONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $127k → 15%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $160k → 7%MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $14k → 7%Palmer Land Trust: $15k → 9%Colorado West Land Trust: $67k → 11%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL: $156k → 12%RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $50k → 14%MONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $10k → 15%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $145k → 7%COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST: $49k → 11%Rio Grand Headwaters Land: $7k → 14%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $38k → 7%COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST: $40k → 11%Colorado Open Lands: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$2.5M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
    5× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +6%
  • MC
    MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $483k · revenue +195%
  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN LANDS
    4× · 2020–2025 · $353k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • EV
    ESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $43k · revenue -43%
  • AV
    ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +100%
  • SI
    SAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +66%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment
2
Colorado River Land Trust Inc

Clrt works in partnership with landowners to conserve and protect land and water resources.

Environment
3
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
4
Placer Land Trust

Placer Land Trust works with willing landowners and conservation partners to permanently protect and care for natural and agricultural lands in Placer County for current and future generations.

Environment
5
Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment
6
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
7
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
8
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
9
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
10
Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.

Environment
11
Colorado Headwaters Land Trust

To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.

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12
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Area Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $483,192 · EnvironmentMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INCRIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $414,850 · EnvironmentRIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUSTCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $352,865 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDSMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $264,100 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCYLa Plata Open Space Conservancy: $152,800 · EnvironmentLa Plata Open Space ConservancyMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $66,340 · Environment+5 more: $156,252 · Environment+5 moreCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $550,003 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AG…WILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $150,200 · Recreation & SportsCentral Colorado Conservacy: $56,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherSAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST: $10,000 · Other
Environment$1,890,399Food & Nutrition$550,003Recreation & Sports$150,200Arts & Culture$56,000Other$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $550,003 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $483,192 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $414,850 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $352,865 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTEZUMA LAND CONSERVANCY: $264,100 over 3y, 16% of budgetLa Plata Open Space Conservancy: $152,800 over 3y, 14% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $150,200 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $66,340 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy: $56,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $48,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST: $43,063 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY: $42,689 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Land Trust Alliance I…Colorado Gives Founda…Gates Family Foundati…The Denver FoundationThe Moore Charitable …The Trust for Public …National Fish and Wil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Land Trust Alliance IncDC32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Land Trust Alliance Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · The Trust for Public Land · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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