Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST
COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,124,567 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($108,277). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Colorado Youth Outdoors Charitable Trust does
Mission
Building Relationships through Traditional Outdoor Recreation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Colorado Youth Outdoors exists to help strengthen relationships between youth and their parents through traditional outdoor recreation. CYO has grown from a small, local after school program to a regional outdoor education facility that serves thousands from Cheyenne south to Colorado Springs.
$1,843,122 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,843,122.
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 $5.9M to $6.6M (+11%).
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 7% · 2021 8% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST’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
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.
Chief executive
Bob Hewson
President & CEO
Board chair
Christian Bordewick
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $39k → $202k.
13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 45% · 2019 34% · 2020 35% · 2021 34% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
56% of COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST'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 $490k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $634k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: 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 YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST?
- COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,124,567 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($108,277). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,124,567 in grants to COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $108,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing