· Public charity
Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation
Preservation and maintenance of trails and related educational activities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $79,380 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $116,280 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION | $28,880 |
| THE COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION | $20,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO | $11,000 |
| CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION | $10,000 |
| WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCThe Colorado Trail Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +57%
- CYCOLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2023 · $125k · revenue +209%
- NCNFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC5× · 2018–2023 · $53k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HLHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +297%
- CYCOLORADO YOUTH CORPone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WSWESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CEone grant, 2017 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
To restore water to colorado's rivers.
Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
Colorado canyons association fosters community stewardship of our national conservation lands with a focus on dominguez-escalante, gunnison gorge and mcinnis canyons national conservation areas in western colorado. we are a non-partisan,…
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (PWV) is a Larimer County, Colorado, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996. The mission of PWV is to assist the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the United States Forest Service in managing and…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
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…
Clrt works in partnership with landowners to conserve and protect land and water resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Restoration Volunteers and the most unlike its peers is High Line Canal Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Colorado Trail Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance · National Forest Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · The Summit Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation 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.
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.