Colorado · Nonprofit
COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE
COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,084 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $256k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Coldharbour Institute does
Mission
Coldharbour Institute advances regenerative practices to improve the health of working agricultural lands and watersheds through education, research, and applied practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The largest accomplishments are as follows: 1) provided educational workshops and training in solar energy installation, regenerative agriculture and watershed restoration for 618 program participants in classes as well as an estimated 2185 additional people benefited from the extended programming at conferences and community events. Also, the organization held the first ever coldharbour youth summit.2) advanced a wide array of land based projects that restored 74 acres of wetlands, developed a business plan for a native plant nursery which will be applied to local restoration projects and continued research on methods to use biochar to improve soil health.3) continued solar projects regarding repurposeing solar panels to provide solar equipment for households with the greatest needs for example: built three reuse-based solar arrays for needs-based homeowners in gunnison in partnership with a local solar business. Delivered national training with various universities and organizations and also delivered reliability research via various workshops both in conjunction with the national renewable energy laboratory.
$377,363 spentof which $17,000 as grants$339,339 earned by the program100% of program spendingN/a
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The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $377,363.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.1M to $1.8M (+68%).
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 1% · 2022 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Trace Brooks
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $52.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE’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
COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
81% of COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE 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
Organizations like COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE: 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 COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE?
- COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,084 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $86,084 in grants to COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLDHARBOUR INSTITUTE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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