Colorado · Nonprofit
Forever Our Rivers Foundation
Forever Our Rivers Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,774,000 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,750,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Forever Our Rivers Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- United Way of Mesa County Inclocal
- Trout Unlimited Incportfolio match
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of Forever Our Rivers Foundation’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
Forever Our Rivers Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 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
Forever Our Rivers Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
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.
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. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Mesa County InclocalCO · funds 32 organizations near you
- Trout Unlimited Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Trout Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterkeeper Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wild Salmon Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Northwest Fund for the Environmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Association of Lions 3602localCO · funds 34 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like Forever Our Rivers Foundation
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Forever Our Rivers Foundation: 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 Forever Our Rivers Foundation?
- Forever Our Rivers Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,774,000 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,750,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Forever Our Rivers Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,774,000 in grants to Forever Our Rivers Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Forever Our Rivers Foundation?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Forever Our Rivers Foundation 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing