Colorado · Nonprofit
BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY
BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,522 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($51,841). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $422k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $270k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Boulder Climbing Community does
Mission
Stewardship of climbing access areas and climbing access trails.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Statement of Accomplishments for the Year: 2177 members, 959 Volunteers, 5,500 + volunteer hours, 64 community engagement events.Anchor Replacement Program: Replaced 1,064 bolts across 37 different crags. 450 bolts in Boulder Canyon, 187 bolts in Shelf Road, 184 at North Table, 93 in Clear Creek Canyon, 78 in the Estes Park Valley, 30 in The Flatirons, 14 in Rocky Mountain National Park, and 14 in the South Platte. Serviced 162 routes.Held 6 part-2 clinics in 2024 which together trained 53 new rebolting volunteers. Issued 7 hardware grants in 2024.Trail Program:4 Projects (28.5 Weeks. Narrow Gauge Slabs (10 Weeks). Saddle Rock Re-Route Trail (7.5 Weeks). Blob Rock Approach Trail (8 weeks). 3rd Flatiron (3 weeks) . Stewardship days (5 days at non-project locations). Morrison Darkside Boulders: Graffiti Removal. East Colfax:Warner Brothers Wall Maintenance. Flagstaff: Trash Clean-up. Staunton State Park: Hemingway Wall Repairs. National Public Lands Day: Canal Zone Maintenance. 16 Volunteer Group Days Human Waste Program: 3,087 Wag Bags distributed to 16 kiosksEagle Monitoring Program: 21 Monitoring Sessions. 2 Eagles Fledged. Confirmed no presence of lead fragments in Eagle Rock…
$320,242 spent$192,837 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $320,242.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $167k to $249k (+49%).
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: 2021 20% · 2022 8% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Matthew Bentley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $32k.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY’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
BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
82% 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 BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 34% · 2019 67% · 2020 58% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 38% — 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
25% of BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
68% of BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $87k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $98k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$98k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY?
- BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,522 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($51,841). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $269,522 in grants to BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOULDER CLIMBING COMMUNITY 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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