Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS
COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,035,641 to it, the largest being GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($695,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts does
Mission
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land trust support: keep it colorado strengthens the capacity of land trusts statewide by raising and regranting funds that reduce barriers for landowners to permanently conserve their lands. Keep it colorado's transaction cost assistance program makes conservation easements financially feasible for landowners who might not otherwise be able to participate. In 2025, we supported 20 projects that permanently conserved 23,527 acres. These investments directly result in more working lands, wildlife habitat, and intact open space conserved for future generations.
$905,278 spentof which $891,166 as grants54% of program spendingPublic policy: keep it colorado serves as the collective voice for private land conservation in colorado, ensuring that policies and funding mechanisms enable lasting conservation outcomes. Our policy work ensures that conservation remains a shared public priority backed by effective, durable tools.
$139,378 spent8% of program spendingEducation and collaboration: keep it colorado connects, educates, and empowers the people and organizations advancing conservation across colorado. Through statewide and regional convenings, webinars, and peer- learning forums, we provide spaces for collaboration, innovation, and professional growth. Our annual membership gatherings explored community-centered conservation, innovative incentive models, and best practices for land trusts and open space agencies. Ongoing monthly calls and knowledge-sharing helped the conservation community to act collectively to achieve greater impact statewide.
$639,852 spentof which $4,316 as grants$171,908 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,684,508.
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 2022 to 2023, from $744k to $2.1M (+182%).
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 49% · 2022 69% · 2023 61% · 2024 90% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS’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. 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
Jim Petterson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $293k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS’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
COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 59% · 2023 58% — 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
40% of COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
75% of COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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
COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS?
- COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,035,641 to it, the largest being GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($695,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,035,641 in grants to COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS?
- GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $695,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS 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 12 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