Colorado · Nonprofit
ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION
ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,278 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $293k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Estes Valley Watershed Coalition does
Mission
Our mission is to bring together local, state, and federal partners to collaborate on projects that support the water, forests, and wildlife of the estes valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The goal of this project is to work with big thompson watershed health partnership and local partners to develop potential projects in priority areas according to the wrap final report and project prioritization. Some of the projects may have overlap with the ev high priority forestry planning and could be included as determined by the planning efforts. Evwc will work with partners to develop project plans that can be implemented in high priority areas along with participating in finding grants to support these projects.
$136,788 spent$26,810 earned by the program53% of program spendingThe fish creek beaver meadow restoration project seeks to continue work on two sections of the creek which were damaged during the 2013 floods: the cheley property, and the bassow property located just downstream. The stated goal of the fish creek project is to restore the beaver meadow complex along fish creek on these properties by reconnecting the floodplain via beaver mimicry treatments, localized grading, and re-vegetation treatments conducted under an adaptive management program. Evwc was able to work with stillwater sciences, dr. Ellen wohl (csu), and brad johnson (johnson environmental consulting, llc) and worchester polytechnic institute to gather data to develop a post project monitoring plan that looks at water temperature, vegetation health, camera traps to monitor wildlife, water flow and a weather station. Gathering this data not only helps support future adaptive management.
$89,871 spent$87,819 earned by the program35% of program spendingThe goal of this project is to connect wildfire mitigation work that has already been done along the borders of rocky mountain national park. A fuel reduction project in this area will help protect private property, water infrastructure, and help reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire in a high-risk area. Evwc is working with agency partners (rmnp, evfpd, csfs) and with landowners.
$30,195 spent$31,000 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,854.
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 $2.5M to $36k (−99%).
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 99% · 2018 49% · 2023 9% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $50.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION’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
ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of the Interior$75k
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 ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED 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
100% 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 ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION: 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 ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION?
- ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,278 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,278 in grants to ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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