Colorado · Nonprofit
CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL
CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,196,448 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($321,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Crested Butte Nordic Council does
Mission
Crested butte nordic fosters outdoor experiences, and community well-being through high-quality cross-country ski programs, recreation events, and winter trails.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs & services: cb nordic programs and services include nordic skiing instruction, youth team coaching, backcountry tours, equipment rentals, and backcountry yurt dinners.
$721,005 spent$923,833 earned by the program52% of program spendingEvents: cb nordic hosts six recreation events throughout the year; the alley loop nordic marathon, gothic mountain tour, winter grand traverse, summer run grand traverse, summer mountain bike grand traverse, and the grin and bear it trail run. Over 2,000 people participated in cb nordic's events to compete, improve their health and well being, and enjoy the outdoors.
$420,786 spent$524,995 earned by the program30% of program spendingOperations: cb nordic's operations include maintining 55 kilometers of winter trails, snowshoe trails, and the upkeep of associated operations equipment and facilities.
$239,085 spent$20,725 earned by the program17% of program spendingContributions, grants, and other program sources used to provide individuals of all ages and abilities the opportunity to learn, enjoy and improve in the sports of cross-country and snowshoeing
$1,300 spentof which $1,300 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,382,176.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+81%).
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 7% · 2018 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 10% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $7k → $373k.
14 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 97% · 2021 61% · 2022 32% · 2023 76% — 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
60% of CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
69% of CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL'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 $365k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $831k 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
CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL?
- CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,196,448 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($321,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,196,448 in grants to CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $321,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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