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Central Colorado Conservacy

Central Colorado Conservacy (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,101,593 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($390,101). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
17
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

Central Colorado Conservacy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($433k) Expenses 100 ($363k) Net assets 100 ($355k)2018 Revenue 136 ($588k) Expenses 123 ($448k) Net assets 140 ($496k)2019 Revenue 99 ($430k) Expenses 105 ($383k) Net assets 153 ($544k)2020 Revenue 137 ($593k) Expenses 145 ($527k) Net assets 169 ($599k)2021 Revenue 333 ($1.4M) Expenses 165 ($599k) Net assets 442 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 1983 ($8.6M) Expenses 2168 ($7.9M) Net assets 634 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 1268 ($5.5M) Expenses 1241 ($4.5M) Net assets 922 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 428 ($1.9M) Expenses 574 ($2.1M) Net assets 873 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 258 ($1.1M) Expenses 222 ($807k) Net assets 961 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (258)Expenses (222)Net assets (961)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
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2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 43% · 2023 56% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of Central Colorado Conservacy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
17
$141k
18
$48k
19
$66k
20
$845k
21
$716k
22
$989k
23
$231k
24
$313k
25
2.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $73k.

7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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 Central Colorado Conservacy’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

Central Colorado Conservacy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 Central Colorado Conservacy.

35%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 41%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

38% of Central Colorado Conservacy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Central Colorado Conservacy draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.

MT
NY
CO
DE
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Central Colorado Conservacy receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $723k on record.

Federal$723k
grants $723kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$630k
  • Department of Agriculture$94k

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 Central Colorado Conservacy

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 44%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

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 Central Colorado Conservacy: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Central Colorado Conservacy?
Central Colorado Conservacy (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,101,593 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($390,101). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Central Colorado Conservacy have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,101,593 in grants to Central Colorado Conservacy, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Central Colorado Conservacy?
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $390,101 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Central Colorado Conservacy 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing