Colorado · Nonprofit
COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS
COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,197 to it, the largest being National Association of State Foresters Foundation ($8,197). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS's revenue grew 52% between 2017 and 2024.
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.
- Arvada Economic Development Associationlocal
- Harder Foundationportfolio match
- The Burning Foundationportfolio 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: 2017 93% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 93% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Arvada Economic Development AssociationlocalCO · funds 62 organizations near you
- Harder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Burning Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James M Lea Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lazar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McDanel Land Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Driggers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilburforce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Path Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wiancko Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kaleidoscope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Holocene Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record — $10.0M federal, $6k state.
- Department of Agriculture$10.0M
- PROF DEV DUES/MEMBERSHIP$4k
- DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$2k
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 COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS
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
78% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS: 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 COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS?
- COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,197 to it, the largest being National Association of State Foresters Foundation ($8,197). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,197 in grants to COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS?
- National Association of State Foresters Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $8,197 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL OF WESTERN STATE FORESTERS 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing