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Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation

Preservation and maintenance of trails and related educational activities

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$300kEnvironment$237kYouth Development$125kAnimals$25k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $79,380, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,280 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $29k → 9%EVANSTON-MOUNTAIN VIEW RANGER DIST: $10k → 5%ROARING FORK VALLEY HORSE COUNSEL: $10k → 6%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $23k → 7%WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS: $9k → 12%COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $13k → 15%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $23k → 7%WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS: $9k → 12%COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CE: $13k → 15%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $22k → 7%WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS: $8k → 12%COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $10k → 15%THE COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $21k → 7%COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $10k → 15%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $10k → 15%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CENTER: $10k → 15%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%COLORADO YOUTH CORP: $20k → 12%COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE: $13k → 12%CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $12k → 7%COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE: $12k → 12%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $10k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $11k → 12%CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $10k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $11k → 12%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $10k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $11k → 12%CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $10k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $10k → 12%CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $10k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $10k → 12%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $9k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $10k → 12%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $9k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $10k → 12%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $8k → 7%HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $25k → 12%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $7k → 7%VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLOR: $10k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$580k · 9 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$580k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+297%

Still filing today

78%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    The Colorado Trail Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +57%
  • CY
    COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $125k · revenue +209%
  • NC
    NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $53k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HL
    HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +297%
  • CY
    COLORADO YOUTH CORP
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • WS
    WESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CE
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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 Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
3
Conservation Colorado

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…

Civil Rights
4
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
5
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
6
Colorado Canyons Association

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,…

Recreation & Sports
7
Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment
8
Colorado Mountain Bike Association

COMBA is dedicated to protecting and improving mountain biking on the Colorado Front Range.

Recreation & Sports
9
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers

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…

Environment
10
Colorado River Land Trust Inc

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

Environment
11
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative

Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $124,500 · EnvironmentCOLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATIONTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $52,500 · EnvironmentTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUBCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $42,000 · EnvironmentCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITIONWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS: $32,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERSThe Colorado Trail Foundation: $168,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Colorado Trail FoundationNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $28,880 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADOVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADO: $62,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOORS COLORADONFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $53,000 · OtherNFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INCHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE: $25,000 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICECOLORADO YOUTH CORP: $20,000 · OtherCOLORADO YOUTH CORPWESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CE: $12,500 · OtherWESTERN SLOPE CONSERVATION CEEVANSTON-MOUNTAIN VIEW RANGER DIST: $10,000 · OtherROARING FORK VALLEY HORSE COUNCIL: $10,000 · Other
Environment$251,000Recreation & Sports$217,880Other$217,500

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 budgetThe Colorado Trail Foundation: $168,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $124,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $53,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $52,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION: $42,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS: $32,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $28,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $21,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 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 ↗

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…The Denver FoundationNational Wilderness S…National Forest Found…Xcel Energy FoundationCommunity Shares of C…The Summit FoundationGates Family Foundati…National Fish and Wil…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    1report 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 15 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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