Colorado · Nonprofit
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY (Colorado) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,361,957 to it, the largest being ZOMA FOUNDATION INC ($3,000,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $16M
What High Line Canal Conservancy does
Mission
To preserve, protect and enhance the 71-mile legacy canal with support from each jurisdiction and in partnership with denver water.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Preserve, protect and enhance the high line canal through leadership, stewardship, advocacy and education. The organization's vision for the future is to permanently preserve the 71-mile linear greenway that creates connections; enhances recreation; leverages economic growth; and improves environmental health.
$5,577,976 spent$3,764 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,577,976.
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.
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 $8.9M to $14M (+52%).
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: 2017 33% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 18% · 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Suzanna Fry Jones
Executive director
Board chair
Paula Herzmark
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $271k → $4.3M.
13 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
32% 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 HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 17% · 2019 40% · 2020 70% · 2021 75% · 2022 16% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
87% of HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: 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 HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY?
- HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY (Colorado) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,361,957 to it, the largest being ZOMA FOUNDATION INC ($3,000,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $12,361,957 in grants to HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY?
- ZOMA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY 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 100 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