Colorado · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES
FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,179 to it, the largest being NATIONAL WILDERNESS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE ($19,035). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,497 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,497 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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.
- National Forest Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- American Trailsshared fundersportfolio match
- Conservation Lands Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $62.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES’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
FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
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 FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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.
- National Forest Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Trailsshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Lands Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Maki Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Wildlife Habitat Preservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forever Our Rivers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Watershed Assemblyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Outdoor Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wolcott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roundup Riders of the Rockies Heritage and Trails Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incshared fundersDC · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $56k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$56k
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 FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES
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.
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 FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES?
- FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,179 to it, the largest being NATIONAL WILDERNESS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE ($19,035). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,179 in grants to FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES?
- NATIONAL WILDERNESS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $19,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MOUNT EVANS & LOST CREEK WILDERNESSES 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 3funders 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