Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED
COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,448 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($423,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Colorado Trout Unlimited does
Mission
To conserve, protect and restore colorado's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Restoration of coldwater habitat and education of members, the general public and decision-making bodies on issues relating to river conservation. Program accomplishments this year include helping secure passage of legislation for protection of colorado waters and wetlands; assisting the us forest service in constructing fish barriers for native trout restoration projects; supporting local tu chapters on stream management plan efforts to develop collaborative projects for improved stewardship; and delivering effective youth programming including stream girls, trout in the classroom, and the annual youth conservation camp to more than 25,000 students, parents and educators.
$1,111,999 spentof which $4,067 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,111,999.
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 $858k to $1.4M (+58%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 42% · 2020 39% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 39% · 2024 63% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $101k → $142k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 TROUT UNLIMITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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 TROUT UNLIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 TROUT UNLIMITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 52% · 2019 42% · 2020 38% · 2021 50% · 2022 48% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
67% of COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED'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 $535k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 TROUT UNLIMITED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
- Department of the Interior$272k
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 TROUT UNLIMITED
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Trout Unlimited · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED: 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 COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED?
- COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,448 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($423,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,598,448 in grants to COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $423,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO TROUT UNLIMITED 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 35 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