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Colorado Wildlife Habitat Preservation Foundation at a glance

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Colorado Wildlife Habitat Preservation Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$35kAnimals$12kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$278k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative$5,000
Crested Butte Land Trust$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,800
Western Aspen Alliance$1,500
Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy$1,000
Colorado Open Lands$1,000
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteer$1,000
Rocky Mountain Conservancy$800
Individual grant recipient$500
Wilderness Workshop$500
Colorado Parks and Wildlife$350
Colorado Wildlife Federation$300
1 for Open Space$300
Water Education Colorado$250
Gunnison Trails$200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Western Aspen Alliance: $2k → 12%Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteer: $1k → 6%Colorado Fourteeners Initiative: $5k → 7%Colorado Wildlife Foundation: $700 → 9%Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy: $2k → 11%The Nature Conservancy-CO Chapter: $412 → 12%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $350 → 12%Western Aspen Alliance: $2k → 12%Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteer: $500 → 6%Colorado Fourteeners Initiative: $5k → 7%Colorado Wildlife Foundation: $300 → 9%Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy: $2k → 11%The Nature Conservancy-CO Chapter: $412 → 12%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $300 → 12%Western Aspen Alliance: $2k → 12%Wilderness Workshop: $500 → 6%Colorado Fourteeners Initiative: $5k → 7%Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy: $1k → 11%The Nature Conservancy-CO Chapter: $412 → 12%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $300 → 12%Western Aspen Alliance: $1k → 12%Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteer: $257 → 6%Colorado Fourteeners Initiative: $5k → 7%Crested Butte Land Trust: $2k → 10%Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy: $1k → 11%Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation: $300 → 12%Western Aspen Alliance: $1k → 12%Wilderness Workshop: $250 → 6%Colorado Open Lands: $1k → 7%Crested Butte Land Trust: $1k → 10%Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy: $1k → 11%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $300 → 12%Western Aspen Alliance: $1k → 12%Wilderness Workshop: $250 → 6%1 for Open Space: $300 → 10%Rocky Mountain Conservancy: $800 → 11%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $300 → 12%Western Aspen Alliance: $1k → 12%Colorado Avian Research: $500 → 11%Rocky Mountain Conservancy: $500 → 11%Colorado Wildlife Federation: $300 → 12%Colorado Avian Research: $500 → 11%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $300 → 12%Rocky Mountain Conservancy: $500 → 11%Colorado Wildlife Federation: $300 → 12%Colorado Wildlife Federation: $300 → 12%Colorado Wildlife Federation: $300 → 12%Colorado Wildlife Federation: $300 → 12%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 23 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
1

Total granted

$59k
$300

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-32%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • CF
    COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +3%
  • CB
    CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +24%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • CW
    COLORADO WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $300 · revenue -32%
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
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

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

Environment
3
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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4
Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wildernesses

The Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (FOMELC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in November 2005. FOMELC is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. We offer volunteer opportunities for all ages, physical…

Environment
5
Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc

Rocky Mountain Field Institute conserves and protects public lands in Southern Colorado through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research.

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6
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
7
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
8
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
9
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
10
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
11
Colorado River Land Trust Inc

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

Environment
12
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Wild; the most unlike its peers is Gunnison Trails Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Western Aspen Alliance: $9,500 · OtherWestern Aspen AllianceROCKY MOUNTAIN CAT CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN CAT CONSERVANCYCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE: $2,050 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICERoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers: $2,007 · OtherRoaring Fork Outdoor VolunteersThe Nature Conservancy-CO Chapter: $1,836 · OtherThe Nature Conservancy-CO ChapterIndividual grant recipient: $1,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $1,206 · OtherColorado Wildlife Foundation: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $1,700 · Other+5 moreCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVEROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $2,600 · Recreation & SportsROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCYFRIENDS OF THE FRONT RANGE WILDLIFE REFUGES: $1,200 · Recreation & SportsCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $3,250 · EnvironmentCRESTED BUTT…COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $1,250 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPE…ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $603 · EnvironmentROARING FORK…COLO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION: $550 · EnvironmentCOLO FOUNDAT…1 PERCENT FOR OPEN SPACE INC: $500 · Environment1 PERCENT FO…ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD: $300 · Environment+1 more: $200 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $1,550 · AnimalsCOLORADO WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $300 · AnimalsASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC: $200 · Education
Other$29,099Recreation & Sports$23,800Environment$6,653Animals$1,850Education$200

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 FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $2,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers: $2,007 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $1,550 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $1,206 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FRONT RANGE WILDLIFE REFUGES: $1,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $603 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budget1 PERCENT FOR OPEN SPACE INC: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FRONT RANGE WILDLIFE REFUGES ↗
  • Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COLO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds 1 PERCENT FOR OPEN SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Gunnison Trails Inc ↗

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 Founda…National Forest Found…Rose Community Founda…PatagoniaorgThe Denver FoundationAspen Skiing Company …Aspen Community Found…The Pew Charitable Tr…The Colorado Health F…Ibm International Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO25.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · National Forest Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Denver Foundation · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Colorado Health Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Wildlife Habitat Preservation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Wildlife Habitat Preservation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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.

    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 27 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-PF 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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