Colorado · Nonprofit
CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE
CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,618,515 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,701,032). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $714k
What Chama Peak Land Alliance does
Mission
" the Chama Peak Land Alliance ("the alliance") is a new mexico non-profit corporation comprised of conservation-minded landowners working collaboratively to practice and promote sound land management in the southern san juan mountains of colorado and northern new mexico. The alliance is committed to practicing and promoting conservation for the benefit of land, water, wildlife, and people. The alliance envisions the watersheds of the san juan and rio chama as an interconnected system that thrives on good stewardship and management practices among private landowners, states, tribes, and federal agencies."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Forest and watershed health: the alliance's forest and watershed health program works to build resiliency in the san juan-rio chama watershed region that supplies nearly half of new mexico's drinking water. Activities are focused on improving forest health through fire mitigation treatments and other restoration and management practices to improve forest health and resilience in order to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, which degrade water and soil quality, destroy plant, fish, and wildlife habitat, and harm the local farming community.
$2,383,530 spent96% of program spendingSustainable agriculture: the alliance region includes a rich history of agricultural practices. The alliance provides resources and fosters holistic land management practices and promotes responsible stewardship through workshops, publications, and other outreach to help area farmers and ranchers.
$7,457 spent0% of program spendingEducation and economy: the alliance's education and economy program is focused on community outreach activities that bridge traditional divides, provide opportunities for youth to engage directly with their surrounding landscape, and support local economies through rural development and poverty alleviation. Program activities include firewood for seniors program and local high school scholarships.
$71,466 spent3% of program spendingWildlife and fisheries: the alliance's wildlife and fisheries program promotes healthy wildlife populations, which are vital to the local economy. Activities are focused on expanding trout, elk, and deer populations by protecting migration corridors, conserving critical habitat, and working cooperatively with local landowners and regulatory agencies. 2025 activity sustainable agriculture & economy & education: cpla advanced sustainable agriculture and rural resilience through education, resource sharing, and community support. Cpla engaged youth through agricultural education and scholarships, amplified local and regional ag voices, connected producers with technical support, and shared timely policy updates with the community. In partnership with the forest stewards guild and various state and federal agencies, cpla hosted the annual rio chama congreso community engagement on watershed and forest outlook. The cpla conservation scholarship program awarded scholarships to local high school graduates. Cpla's firewood for seniors program distributed 146 cords of firewood to 144 local households including 20 homebound residents, combining forest restoration with community support. 20…
$20,639 spentof which $4,000 as grants$1,607 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,483,092.
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 2024 to 2025, from $514k to $746k (+45%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 11% · 2022 15% · 2023 11% · 2024 71% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Tim Haarmann
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $176k → $257k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE’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
CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 55% · 2019 71% · 2020 69% · 2021 61% · 2022 70% · 2023 44% — 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
44% of CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
71% of CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE'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 $767k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record.
- Department of the Interior$4.4M
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 CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE: 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 CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE?
- CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,618,515 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,701,032). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,618,515 in grants to CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $1,701,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing