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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $282k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $719k
What Forever Our Rivers Foundation does
Programs
4Rivers Program grant-making protects and restores 4 tributaries to the Colorado River Dolores Escalante Verde and Gila rivers of Colorado Utah and Arizona
$451,327 spentThe Community Grants Program grant-making focuses on community-inspired projects that empower and educate youth about river ecosystems and conservation
$98,072 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2020 to 2021, from $136k to $1.7M (+1127%).
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.
Chief executive
Ann Johnston
Executive Director
Board chair
Tim Carlson
Chairman Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
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.
Against its field
Forever Our Rivers Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Forever Our Rivers Foundation
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.
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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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