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Huts for Vets

Huts for Vets (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $875,367 to it, the largest being The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation ($200,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$118k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$875k
Net assets
$254k
14/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 95%
01What it does

What Huts for Vets does

Mission

Outdoor education for US Veterans

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Huts for Vets provides outdoor education for US war veterans at huts in the Aspen area. Veterans read Great Books and discuss the implications to current US affairs. The mission is to listen to Veterans and to create a comfortable environment where they can discuss their memories of the combat experience with other Veterans and the group facilitators, in order that they can leave those experiences behind and heal.

    $170,844 spent$115,187 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $170,844.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($337k)2018 Revenue 193 ($164k) Expenses 113 ($145k) Net assets 103 ($347k)2019 Revenue 270 ($230k) Expenses 144 ($184k) Net assets 116 ($391k)2020 Revenue 183 ($156k) Expenses 87 ($112k) Net assets 135 ($454k)2021 Revenue 170 ($145k) Expenses 150 ($191k) Net assets 121 ($408k)2022 Revenue 304 ($259k) Expenses 242 ($309k) Net assets 106 ($356k)2023 Revenue 239 ($203k) Expenses 232 ($297k) Net assets 74 ($250k)2024 Revenue 422 ($359k) Expenses 193 ($247k) Net assets 106 ($358k)2025 Revenue 138 ($118k) Expenses 174 ($222k) Net assets 75 ($254k)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (174)Net assets (75)Peer revenue range

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 $362k to $246k (−32%).

$340k
$348k
$392k
$456k
$410k
$362k
$246k
$353k
$255k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Huts for Vets’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$43k
’17
$20k
’18
$46k
’19
$44k
’20
−$46k
’21
−$51k
’22
−$93k
’23
$112k
’24
−$104k
’25
14
months of
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

Erik Villasenor

Executive Director/Treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed891011777
Joined·+3+1+2+4+1+2
No longer listed·201812
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $81k → $79k.

9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Huts for Vets’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

Huts for Vets has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

23%
largest funder
51%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 65% · 2019 56% · 2020 32% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% — 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

67% of Huts for Vets's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Huts for Vets draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.

ID
MN
NY
NJ
CO
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Huts for Vets holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−89% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Huts for Vets

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 13%Fundraising 10%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Huts for Vets?
Huts for Vets (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $875,367 to it, the largest being The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation ($200,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Huts for Vets have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $875,367 in grants to Huts for Vets, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Huts for Vets?
The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Huts for Vets 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing