Colorado · Nonprofit
GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH
GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,010 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Graceful Oaks Youth Ranch does
Mission
Line 28 - 1. Served over 750 community members at special events and family fun nights. 2. Developed more than 60 kids in the empowering youth leadership program, dedicated to nurturing the unique strengths of participants while equipping them for successful futures in the workforce. 3. The goyr leadership team successfully mentored 23 participants in the junior leadership team program, fuiding them through hands-on experiences in project management, business operations, and effective teamwork. Participants not only learned how to collaborate and primary exempt purpose: Graceful Oaks Youth Ranch is dedicated to empowering youth, fostering personal growth, and building leadership skills through innovative animal-assisted education. Committed to the well-being of our community, we collaborate to create positive change, enrich lives, and inspire confidence and knowledge - one heart at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $107k (+113%).
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.
48% of GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Chalae Cartledge
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $93 → $28k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH’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
GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH draws 67% 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. $7k 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
GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH
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.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH?
- GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,010 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $95,010 in grants to GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACEFUL OAKS YOUTH RANCH 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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