Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER RUSTLERS INC
DENVER RUSTLERS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,667 to it, the largest being RICHMOND AMERICAN FOUNDATION ($86,867). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Denver Rustlers Inc does
Mission
The Denver Rustlers helps student exhibitors earn money for college through the purchase of their showcased livestock at the Colorado State Fair Junior Livestock Sale making sure the young exhbitors get a fair price for their animals, staying until each and every animal is sold.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, supporters of the Denver Rustlers attended the Colorado State Fair Junior Livestock Sales for goats, lambs, hogs, steer and heifers. The animals of the exhibitors from across the state of Colorado were purchased by the Denver Rustlers for more than $80,000. The exhibitors learned the value of hard work while raising their animals for the fair in addition to the funds they receive from participating in the sale. Meat packages from several lots were donated to a non-profit which serves the community members in need.
$185,042 spentof which $155,029 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $185,042.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $93k to $66k (−29%).
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.
63% of DENVER RUSTLERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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 3 funders, grant income rose $550 → $31k.
From the IRS filings of DENVER RUSTLERS INC’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
DENVER RUSTLERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 DENVER RUSTLERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DENVER RUSTLERS INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DENVER RUSTLERS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DENVER RUSTLERS INC
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.
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 DENVER RUSTLERS INC: 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 DENVER RUSTLERS INC?
- DENVER RUSTLERS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,667 to it, the largest being RICHMOND AMERICAN FOUNDATION ($86,867). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER RUSTLERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $130,667 in grants to DENVER RUSTLERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER RUSTLERS INC?
- RICHMOND AMERICAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER RUSTLERS INC 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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