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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$578kYouth Development$38kArts & Culture$20kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $226k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$356k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$20,000
LINCOLN HILLS CARES$20,000
BIG THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITION$20,000
SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION$20,000
YAMPA VALLEY HOUSING AUTHORITY$20,000
MILE HIGH YOUTH CORPS$20,000
COCO INC$20,000
COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED$20,000
MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUTE$19,500
SAN JUAN RC&D COUNCIL$18,052
COLORADO RIO GRANDE RESTORATION FOUNDATION$18,000
WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER$10,000
SOUTHERN COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED 509$5,420
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DOUGLAS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $20k → 3%TOWN OF CARBONDALE: $15k → 6%SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION: $20k → 7%ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%ARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $16k → 8%MILE HIGH YOUTH CORPS: $20k → 9%HEADWATERS ALLIANCE RIO GRANDE: $20k → 9%CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY: $15k → 10%COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED: $20k → 11%MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 12%WILDLAND RESTORATION VOLUNTEER: $20k → 12%GROUNDWORK DENVER: $20k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $10k → 15%MANCOS CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $18k → 15%COSTILLA CO CONSERVANCY DIST: $20k → 17%TROUT UNLIMITED: $18k → 7%SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION: $7k → 7%SOUTHERN COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED 509: $5k → 9%MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%LINCOLN HILLS CARES: $20k → 12%COLORADO RIO GRANDE RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 17%TROUT UNLIMITED: $15k → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN FIELD INSTITUTE: $45k → 9%COLORADO WATER TRUST INC: $15k → 12%COLORADO RIO GRANDE RESTORATION: $15k → 17%COCO INC: $20k → 12%YEAR ONE INCMILE HIGH YOUTH C: $18k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$282k · 8 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +82% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$282k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+82%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • RM
    Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $51k · revenue +11%
  • YV
    YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +101%
  • YO
    YEAR ONE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MC
    MIDDLE COLORADO WATERSHED COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +104%
  • GD
    GROUNDWORK DENVER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • HA
    HEADWATERS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -52%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
2
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.

Environment
3
Living Rivers

Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…

Environment
4
Uviation World Water

To leverage education, technology, and innovative solutions to improve river health.

Environment
5
Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation

Watershed Protection and Restoration

Environment
6
San Juan Citizens Alliance

The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.

Environment
7
Watershed Restoration Coalition for the

The organization is dedicated to restoring water quality, fisheries, and wildlife, and protecting the agricultural heritage and open space of the upper clark fork river basin of southwest montana. the organization pursues these goals by…

Environment
8
Wood River Land Trust Co

The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.

Environment
9
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
10
Coal Creek Watershed Coalition

To maintain, restore, and enhance the environmental integrity of crested buttes local watershed to ensure those local watersheds and habitats are of the highest possible quality necessary to support wildlife, aquatic life, and human life.

Environment
11
Colorado Assoc of Conservation District

The mission of cacd is to serve as the unified voice for the conservation districts of colorado.

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12
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middle Colorado Watershed Council and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr16%14%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%46%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr12%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr16%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%48%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
2,205/16,878

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL — $40,000 · EnvironmentYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCILMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $39,302 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUETHE COLORADO RIO GRANDE RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $33,000 · EnvironmentTHE COLORADO RIO GRANDE RESTORATION FOUNDATIONBIG THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITION — $30,700 · EnvironmentBIG THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITIONMIDDLE COLORADO WATERSHED COUNCIL — $20,000 · EnvironmentMIDDLE COLORADO WATERSHED COUNCILCOALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentCOALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INCHEADWATERS ALLIANCE — $20,000 · EnvironmentHEADWATERS ALLIANCEROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $20,000 · EnvironmentROARING FORK CONSERVANCYCOALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED — $20,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHEDWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS — $19,604 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERSSAN JUAN RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $18,052 · EnvironmentSAN JUAN RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL I…RIVERSEDGE WEST — $16,654 · EnvironmentARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE — $16,300 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $15,000 · EnvironmentRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc — $51,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Field Instit…YAMPA VALLEY HOUSING AUTHORITY — $20,000 · OtherYAMPA VALLEY HOUSING AUTHOR…DOUGLAS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $19,935 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY CONSERVATION…MANCOS CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $17,538 · OtherMANCOS CONSERVATION DISTRIC…Colorado Riverfront Foundation Inc — $15,015 · OtherColorado Riverfront Foundat…THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE — $15,000 · OtherTHE TOWN OF CARBONDALENFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherNFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CE…SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION — $7,000 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED — $5,420 · OtherGROUNDWORK DENVER INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementGROUNDWORK…COSTILLA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOSTILLA C…SAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSAN MIGUEL…YEAR ONE INC — $37,600 · Youth DevelopmentLINCOLN HILLS CARES — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCentral Colorado Conservacy — $14,750 · Arts & CultureTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $33,400 · Animals
Environment$328,612Other$160,908Community Improvement$60,000Youth Development$37,600Arts & Culture$34,750Animals$33,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetMIDDLE COLORADO WATERSHED COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROUNDWORK DENVER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEADWATERS ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLINCOLN HILLS CARES — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOSTILLA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSAN MIGUEL WATERSHED COALITION — $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…PatagoniaorgNational Forest Found…The Nature ConservancyNational Fish and Wil…Western Colorado Comm…Gates Family Foundati…Forever Our Rivers Fo…The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Walton Family Foundat…The Denver Foundation
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Colorado Watershed Assembly funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your 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
    6report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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