Colorado · Nonprofit
HEADWATERS ALLIANCE
HEADWATERS ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,321 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($31,871). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Headwaters Alliance does
Mission
The Headwaters Alliance seeks to foster a sustainable environmental and economic future for the URG basin in Southern Colorado through education, stewardship, and resource conservation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Watershed Restoration:Watershed work involves the sampling and monitoring of water and soil to guide the development of construction projects that improve water quality and water quantity and alleviate exposure to mine wastes in Mineral County. This program serves the community of Mineral County (700) and the downstream water users on the Rio Grande (unknown). This program is accomplished by working with professionals, local, state and federal government, community stakeholders, volunteers, and funders.
$83,529 spent65% of program spendingLeadership & VolunteerismThis work includes hosting a multitude of stewardship projects ranging from hosting vital community meetings with regulator entities regarding cornerstone environmental issues, to volunteer activities such as planting willows and trees, to educational events to better inform our community to the challenges of our region, to connecting adults and children with the natural world through environmental education. Through community partnerships, we welcome new participants and volunteers to experience the hands-on satisfaction of participating in community led stewardship planning and ecological restoration. We worked with more than 60 volunteers in 2022, including students, teachers, senior citizens and others.
$25,701 spent20% of program spendingEducation:Environmental education is the central thread to everything we do. We actively share information and resources with our community via articles, social media and events to facilitate informed participation by our community. Additionally, we host a rigorous youth science camp for local students to cultivate youth participation and voice within this work. Annual youth events impact up to 25 students and their families.
$19,276 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $128,506.
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 2022 to 2023, from $98k to $20k (−80%).
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 56% · 2022 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HEADWATERS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $32k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 HEADWATERS ALLIANCE’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
HEADWATERS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 HEADWATERS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 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
HEADWATERS ALLIANCE draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 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
HEADWATERS ALLIANCE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HEADWATERS ALLIANCE
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEADWATERS ALLIANCE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEADWATERS ALLIANCE?
- HEADWATERS ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,321 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($31,871). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEADWATERS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $88,321 in grants to HEADWATERS ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEADWATERS ALLIANCE?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,871 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEADWATERS ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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