Colorado · Nonprofit
FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC
FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being BIRD CHARLES SUMNER FDN TR UDECL ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $443k
What Fountain Creek Watershed Inc does
Mission
Mission is to preserve, improve and revitalize the fountain creek and monument creek riparian corridors in colorado springs, to identify funding sources and strategies to support development for the public benefit along the corridors, to promote education and research with the goal of improving water flow and quality, and to foster park and recreational opportunities along the creeks.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Organization has assumed primary responsibility for informing the community organizations and, when requested, City Council, about the COS Creek Plan and the progress made in achieving the vision and objectives of the Plan. In addition to individual meetings with community and organizational leaders, the organization has made presentations to over twenty-five community organizations. Organization worked collaboratively with the City of Colorado Springs and Colorado Springs Utilities to advance the COS Creek Plan. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers feasibility study for the COS Creek Plan was authorized by the 2024 Water Resource Development Act. Organization was awarded two Colorado Water Plan grants by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. The first is in the amount of $187,305 (the organization's match is $62,435) to develop a Stream Reach Plan for Monument Creek from Monument Valley Park to Garden of the Gods Road. The second grant is in the amount of $149,842 to develop a Stream Reach Plan for Monument Creek from the north end of Monument Valley Park (MVP) to the south end of ATB Park. The organization's match is $49,947.50. Organization was also awarded an Economic Development…
$508,508 spentof which $5,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $508,508.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $948k to $443k (−53%).
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.
14% of FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% 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.
Board chair
JAN MARTIN Board Member
Chair, and president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED 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.
Where its funders are
FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
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
FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC's revenue fell 96% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- Department of Commerce$80k
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 FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED 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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED 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 FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC?
- FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being BIRD CHARLES SUMNER FDN TR UDECL ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED INC?
- BIRD CHARLES SUMNER FDN TR UDECL is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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