Colorado · Nonprofit
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,430,440 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($635,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Continental Divide Trail Coalition does
Mission
Cdtc is the lead national partner working with the usfs in the administration, completion, protection, and volunteer stewardship and construction of the continental divide national scenic trail.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Stewardship - in 2024 CDTC continued work to cooperatively steward the CDT providing 17,305 volunteer hours dedicated to trail stewardship activities. This included supporting 12 volunteer projects, 3 adopter trainings and 338 volunteer Trail Adopters who conducted regular maintenance along the CDT. Success included adding an additional 15 gates to support trail infrastructure across southern New Mexico. It also include continued efforts to participate in over 20 public processes to participate in agency project planning efforts affecting the CDT support of the Partnership for the National Trails System and showcasing the CDT shared stewardship model across the BLM, NPS and USFS. CDTC continued work to build relationships with Tribal Nations through development of trailhead kiosks across the Carson National Forest and work with 5 Tribal fellows across the entire CDT. CDTC continued signage efforts and trail clearing and installed 34 drains, 102 signs and markers placed, 33,301 feet of trail maintained, 3800 pounds of rock removed, 1425 trees cleared, 2 double stringer bridges installed and scouted 71,000 feet of CDT for trail condition needs. Work also included close collaboration…
$547,930 spent36% of program spendingPublic Information Outreach and Communication - CDTC hosted CDT Trail Days in Silver City, NM and welcomed over 3500 people to participate in the free and family friendly events. In addition, CDTC supported over 20 public events across the CDT that reached over 4500 people and helped raise awareness about the CDT and cooperative stewardship efforts. This included hosting 8 hikes in the Gila National Forest to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Gila Wilderness designation. In addition, CDTC worked with rural communities across New Mexico to invite first time stewards to the CDTC shared stewardship work through on the ground community stewardship events. CDTC continued to update its website to provide high quality, free online resources for trail information, including releasing a new hiker registration program, and continued work with partners all across the CDT to create broad support for the CDT and CDTC work.
$621,566 spent41% of program spendingCommunity Engagement - CDTC continued work with all 21 designated gateway communities and began working with new communities seeking designation in MT and NM. In January 2024 Hidalgo County Commissioners officially and unanimously passed a resolution as the 22nd Gateway Community of the CDT. CDTC produced its 2024 small business survey results, and once again participated in events all across the CDT with communities including Leadville CDT Days, the Pinedale Outdoor Festival, Get Outdoors Hidalgo, Lincoln Days, and events in Rawlins, WY and Steamboat Springs, CO. CDTC once again hosted its Gateway Community Summit and supported the PNTS National Trails Workshop in Tucson AZ with presentations and training in many of our programmatic work.
$343,756 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,513,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $403k to $1.4M (+238%).
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: 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION’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 6 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
Teresa Martinez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $47k → $738k.
11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
82% 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 CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 60% · 2019 67% · 2020 46% · 2021 31% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% — 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
59% of CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $879k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$4.5M
- Department of the Interior$470k
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 CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION?
- CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,430,440 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($635,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,430,440 in grants to CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION?
- WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $635,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 45 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