Colorado · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES
FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,390 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Friends of Twin Lakes does
Mission
Charitable and educational
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1. Raising money for Lake County Fire Station 2. The remaining fund raising is going to equipment, training and interior needs related to Fire Station 2. Raised $6676 in cash donations for 2025. We paid for an Utra Terrain Vehicle to fight wildfires and related equipment for $39723. This new asset and equipment increase capacity for the benefit our entire county population 7500, plus thousands of visitors who recreate in the area.
$0 spent2. Work on USFS land. We spent $903.47 on supplies and food for volunteers on work days for the Interlaken Resort fence project, repairs at Dexter and Clarion and cleaning. We used a grant from the Lake County Tourism Panel of $450.29 to pay for internet used at the Twin Lakes Visitor Center which is staffed entirely by volunteers from Friends of Twin Lakes to assist the Continental Divide and Colorado Trail Hikers and many visitors to the area. We also help with highway cleanups, clean up of the Heritage Park, maintain some of the trails around the Twin Lakes and maintenance work on the Willis Grant Trailhead. The total 2025 volunteer hours donated to work on USFS projects/land projects was 857.75. (value of $33,229.24 using the Independent Sector value of volunteer hourly rate for Colorado of $38.74).
$0 spentof which $450 as grants3. Other community service projects included cleaning up an eight mile stretch of Highway 82 (both sides) each spring, serving as course marshals within Twin Lakes Village for the LT100 Footrace when our Village of 23 residents explodes to over 3000, providing seminars on Aging in Place and hosting a town hall for input on our county master plan revisions. We send emails at least 2x per month containing information on public health clinics, general and senior activities, speakers, programs in Lake County to an audience of over +460. We have internet available at the Schoolhouse year round with instructions on how to access it when the Schoolhouse is closed posted on the Community Bulletin Board (cost of $916.44). Our bulk email is done through a subscription to MailChimp $156. We pay the utilities and rent for the Schoolhouse to Lake County School District for $619 this year. We paid for three month of an ADA portable toilet at $900 in the Visitor Center when the USFS closed their restroom which is the only public restroom in Twin Lakes Village along Highway 82.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $103k to $178k (+73%).
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.
98% of FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $50k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 TWIN LAKES’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 TWIN LAKES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 TWIN LAKES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
87% of FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 TWIN LAKES's revenue fell 51% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 TWIN LAKES?
- FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,390 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $58,390 in grants to FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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