Colorado · Nonprofit
GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS
GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,909,791 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($414,402). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $889k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Great Old Broads for Wilderness does
Mission
Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Great Old Broads for Wilderness protected public lands with its network of largely older women leaders in 2025. With members across the country, the organization counted on volunteers who contributed nearly 50,000 volunteer hours to lead hands-on stewardship activities, educate communities, advocate for change, and strengthen relationships. The organizations grassroots leaders hosted or participated in more than 450 local events, led 110 activities for citizen science and harm remediation on public lands. Four regional or national events supported by staff brought together leaders from across communities to share experiences and learn together. As a result of this work, the organization contributed to significant progress for public lands across the country.
$406,805 spent$40,987 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $406,805.
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 2018 to 2019, from $409k to $1.0M (+156%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $106k → $267k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 53% · 2020 67% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 37% — 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
54% of GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
66% of GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS'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 $653k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS
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
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS?
- GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,909,791 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($414,402). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,909,791 in grants to GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $414,402 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS 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 39 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