Colorado · Nonprofit
BOOK TRAILS INC
BOOK TRAILS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,004 to it, the largest being CRAIG-SCHECKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($224,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $815k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Book Trails Inc does
Mission
BookTrails mission is to foster literacy in all people and promote access to literacy programs for all children. BookTrails aims to design programs that create new ways to experience the joys of reading and writing through experiential learning
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Organization shall be operated in a cooperative manner and upon principles applicable to cooperative corporations, associations, and non-profit organizations. In this regard, goals of the Organization shall include:1. BookTrails will provide literacy education in the communities for which we serve.2. BookTrails will identify literacy education needs in our communities and create programs to address those needs. 3. BookTrails will use reading and writing as tools to teach place-based lessons, centered around the heritage, culture, environment, and history of the area. 4. BookTrails will strive to ensure that every local child has the opportunity to participate in BookTrails programs.
$404,969 spentof which $22,380 as grants$129,728 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $404,969.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $595k to $1.1M (+93%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BOOK TRAILS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $50k → $146k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOOK TRAILS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOOK TRAILS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOOK TRAILS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 54% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of BOOK TRAILS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BOOK TRAILS INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOOK TRAILS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BOOK TRAILS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOOK TRAILS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOOK TRAILS INC?
- BOOK TRAILS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,004 to it, the largest being CRAIG-SCHECKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($224,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOOK TRAILS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,259,004 in grants to BOOK TRAILS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOK TRAILS INC?
- CRAIG-SCHECKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $224,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOOK TRAILS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing