Colorado · Nonprofit
Colorado Parks and Recreation Association
Colorado Parks and Recreation Association (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,686 to it, the largest being MJD Starfish Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Colorado Parks and Recreation Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Billie and Gillis Thomas Family Foundationshared funders
- Grand Park Community Foundationportfolio match
- Shift Eventsportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Colorado Parks and Recreation Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $2k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Parks and Recreation Association’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 Parks and Recreation Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
Colorado Parks and Recreation Association draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Billie and Gillis Thomas Family Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Grand Park Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shift Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Core Electric Cooperativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Margaret and Al Hill Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bee Vradenburg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Summit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schuster Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bushong Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denver Rotary Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Safari Club Int'L Colorado Chapterportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Grand Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like Colorado Parks and Recreation Association
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
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
89%
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 Colorado Parks and Recreation Association: 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.
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 Colorado Parks and Recreation Association?
- Colorado Parks and Recreation Association (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,686 to it, the largest being MJD Starfish Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Colorado Parks and Recreation Association have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,686 in grants to Colorado Parks and Recreation Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colorado Parks and Recreation Association?
- MJD Starfish Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colorado Parks and Recreation Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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