Colorado · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC
FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,037 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($540,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Friends of the Yampa Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to protect and enhance the environmental and recreational integrity of the yampa river and its tributaries, through stewardship, advocacy, education and partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Yampa river fund, an endowment fund of the yampa valley community foundation and managed by friends of the yampa. The yampa river fund has its own board and steering committee who make decisions on grant making for water releases, habitat improvements and multi-benefit projects. Funds are granted to friends of the yampa, which executes the instructions of the fund's board and manages granted funds.
$219,196 spentof which $145,040 as grants26% of program spendingThe yampa river stewardship program (ystew) is a planning and capacity building program led by friends of the yampa and supported by the yampa river collaborative. Using river health data and stakeholder input, ystew identifies specific ways to move the yampa to a healthier state through empowering landowners, land managers, and practitioners to implement river restoration projects and land management practices that support river health. Specifically, ystew does this by: 1) engaging stakeholders to define desired future conditions and develop strategies to move existing conditions toward this vision, 2) identifying common barriers to implementing river restoration projects and land management practices, and 3) providing landowners, land managers, and practitioners with training on how to use the identified strategies, resources, and support to reduce barriers to project implementation.
$249,897 spentof which $1,712 as grants$122,354 earned by the program29% of program spendingThe yampa river awareness project's (yrap) goals are to: document the unique resources and values of the wild and free flowing yampa river. Inform the public and policy makers about these values and what could be lost if a major dam, diversion or dewatering project occurs on the yampa. Inspire people to protect the yampa river for future generations. Yampa river festival which raises awareness of the yampa river located in colorado and utah. The event combines featured speakers discussing the importance of the yampa river as well as river related competetive events and activities. Yampa river youth camps: the main goal of this program is to empower youth to travel safely in whitewater river conditions while falling in love with one of the most important resources here in the yampa valley. This class will create opportunities for the youth of northwest colorado to get their foot in the door with not only beginner river skills but also on local river knowledge. Through river conservation and environmental education youth will come away as agents of change and stewards to our local river and adjacent agricultural, public and private lands. Public relations designed to raise awareness…
$181,603 spent$54,731 earned by the program21% of program spendingYampa river scorecard project: the yrsp is a long-term river health monitoring and evaluation program for the yampa basin that will rate the overall condition of different segments of the yampa river and articulate results through "scorecard". A comprehensive long-term monitoring program has yet to exist in the yampa basin.
$198,172 spentof which $68,000 as grants$7,076 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $848,868.
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 2021 to 2022, from $576k to $955k (+66%).
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: 2020 21% · 2021 8% · 2022 27% · 2023 12% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $15k → $206k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 THE YAMPA 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 THE YAMPA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 86% · 2021 81% · 2022 52% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
44% of FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $584k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $570k on record.
- Department of the Interior$550k
- Department of Agriculture$20k
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 THE YAMPA 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,037 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($540,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,295,037 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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