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Colorado Watershed Assembly

Supporting collaborative efforts to protect, improve and restore the water, land and natural resources of colorados watersheds; to act as a clearing house and networking body for other non-profit entities and government agencies.

$234k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$356k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Colorado Watershed Assembly funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$231k69%
FY20235$76k60%
FY20227$96k71%
FY20216$117k100%
FY20207$135kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$578kYouth Development$38kArts & Culture$20kHousing & Shelter$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Colorado Watershed Assembly by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc$51,00023%
Yampa Valley Sustainability Council$40,00023%
Mountain Studies Institue$39,30221%
Year One Inc$37,60020%
Trout Unlimited Inc$33,40020%
The Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation$33,00023%
Big Thompson Watershed Coalition$30,70023%
Costilla County Economic Development Council Inc$20,000134%
Yampa Valley Housing Authority$20,0001n/a
San Miguel Watershed Coalition$20,00019%
Middle Colorado Watershed Council$20,00017%
Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed$20,00011%
Roaring Fork Conservancy$20,00011%
Groundwork Denver Inc$20,00011%
Lincoln Hills Cares$20,00012%
Headwaters Alliance$20,00017%
Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc$20,00011%
Douglas County Conservation District$19,9351n/a
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers$19,60411%
San Juan Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc$18,0521n/a
Mancos Conservation District$17,5381n/a
Riversedge West$16,65421%
Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative$16,30012%
Colorado Riverfront Foundation Inc$15,015110%
Colorado Water Trust$15,00012%
The Town of Carbondale$15,0001n/a
Central Colorado Conservacy$14,75012%
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc$10,00011%
San Miguel Watershed Coalition$7,0001n/a
Trout Unlimited$5,4201n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Colorado Watershed Assembly supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetYampa Valley Sustainability Council: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMountain Studies Institue: $39,302 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYear One Inc: $37,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $33,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation: $33,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBig Thompson Watershed Coalition: $30,700 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCostilla County Economic Development Council Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSan Miguel Watershed Coalition: $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMiddle Colorado Watershed Council: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCoalition for the Poudre River Watershed: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRoaring Fork Conservancy: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGroundwork Denver Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLincoln Hills Cares: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHeadwaters Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCoalitions & Collaboratives Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWildlands Restoration Volunteers: $19,604 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRiversedge West: $16,654 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetArkansas River Watershed Collaborative: $16,300 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetColorado Riverfront Foundation Inc: $15,015 over 1y, 10% of budgetColorado Water Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy: $14,750 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO38.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Patagoniaorg · National Forest Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Forever Our Rivers Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Colorado Watershed Assembly?

Find your warmest path to Colorado Watershed Assembly 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.

About Colorado Watershed Assembly

How much does Colorado Watershed Assembly give?
Colorado Watershed Assembly reported 13 grants totaling $234,362 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Colorado Watershed Assembly fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Youth Development (6%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Colorado Watershed Assembly's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc ($51k), Yampa Valley Sustainability Council ($40k), Mountain Studies Institue ($39k).
Does Colorado Watershed Assembly fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Watershed Assembly?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Patagoniaorg, National Forest Foundation.
Where is Colorado Watershed Assembly based?
Colorado Watershed Assembly is based in CO.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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