Utah · Nonprofit
COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION
COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,069,836 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($732,339). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $139k
What Cottonwood Canyons Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation is supporting the environment of the Cottonwood Canyons through stewardship and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Trail Stewardship Program in Millcreek Canyon, Big Cottonwood Canyon and Little Cottonwood Canyon in protecting land areas. Program maintains and develops recreational trail systems.
$287,249 spent41% of program spendingYouth and adult education programs in the Cottonwood Canyons and Salt Lake area. Operations at Silver Lake Visitors Center are conducted in partnership with the USDA Forest Service to provide public information and naturalist interpretive education programs. Silver Lake offers school and other group field trips in the fall. Snowshoe field trips are provided for schools in the winter. Guided educational ski tours are given to the public in the winter in both Cottonwood Canyons.
$233,386 spent33% of program spendingWeed Stewardship Program in Millcreek Canyon, Big Cottonwood Canyon, and Little Cottonwood Canyon in protected land areas. This program maps, locates, and treats invasive weed populations, collects native seeds, and rehabilitates habitat for revegetation with native plants.
$185,997 spent26% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $706,632.
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 2017 to 2018, from $292k to $181k (−38%).
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 23% · 2018 12% · 2020 9% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 40% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $86k → $125k.
4 of 15 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 COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 89% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 72% — 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
50% of COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION has grown faster 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 COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
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 COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION?
- COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,069,836 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($732,339). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,069,836 in grants to COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $732,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COTTONWOOD CANYONS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 15 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