Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN
COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,695 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($67,349). 7 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 FY2025
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $434k
What Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition In does
Mission
Colorado crane conservation coalition ("cccc") conserves and protects the rocky mountain population of greater sandhill cranes and their habitat using science and education to connect people with this iconic species. Cccc is the collaborative leader in fostering long-term sustainability of the rocky mountain population of greater sandhill cranes
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Yampa valley crane festival: annual four-day festival to celebrate the presence of greater sandhill cranes in northwest colorado and to educate the public about this iconic species. The festival showcases the wildlife and spectacular scenery of the yampa valley and offers more than 40 individual events including guided crane viewings led by crane experts, presentations by world-renowned crane and wildlife experts, bird and nature walks, children's educational activities, crane art, crane story-telling and special crane and nature films. In 2025 event attendance at the festival was 2,557.
$56,603 spent$17,665 earned by the program45% of program spendingCrane education and awareness: cccc offers many additional programs that promote education and awareness of sandhill cranes: 1. Each spring cccc gives a free educational program about sandhill cranes to elementary schools in routt and moffat counties. The program is geared to third graders but can be modified for other grades. Students are taught about crane physiology, habitat, behavior, migration and the difference between cranes and other large birds of the area. 2. Cccc offers free educational programs to seniors and other community groups throughout routt and moffat counties. 3. Cccc presents a live streaming crane nest camera each spring that allows the public to learn about crane nesting and other wildlife of the area. 4. Cccc holds various contests throughout the year that raise "crane awareness:" first crane sighting contest; crane photo contest; crane-inspired creative arts scholarship contest.
$47,980 spentof which $17,000 as grants38% of program spendingConservation and research: to support sandhill cranes during staging, cccc facilitates crops for cranes, a habitat improvement program that collaborates with local ranchers, landowners, and conservation partners by funding grain crop production. Cccc monitors crane populations in the yampa valley and partners with environmental organizations to restore critical wetland habitat.
$20,603 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $125,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $235k to $342k (+46%).
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.
86% of COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $47k.
6 of 9 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 COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN’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 CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
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 COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 88% · 2020 46% · 2021 39% · 2022 54% · 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
75% of COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN'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
81% of COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN'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 $38k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3k
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 COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN
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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN?
- COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,695 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($67,349). 7 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 COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $196,695 in grants to COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO CRANE CONSERVATION COALITION IN 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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