Colorado · Nonprofit
LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP
LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $831,987 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($274,991). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $832k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group does
Mission
With roots in the left hand watershed, the mission of the watershed center is to protect and restore watersheds for people and the environment using a collaborative and science-based approach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Forests:bring together diverse stakeholders, scientists, and community members to collaboratively plan and implement cross-jurisdictional landscape-scale forest restoration in the st. Vrain watershed that will prepare the landscape and community to receive wildland fire as a natural part of the ecosystem.
$670,653 spent56% of program spendingRivers:bring together diverse stakeholders, scientists and community members to plan and implement multibenefit on-the-ground projects that advance watershed restoration practices and incorporate climate change scenarios.
$500,757 spent42% of program spendingEducation:build a community-wide stewardship ethic rooted in watershed science and place-based participatory learning through education.
$28,555 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,199,965.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $342k (−73%).
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 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 77% · 2021 73% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Yana Sorokin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $78k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP’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
LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 88% · 2022 44% · 2023 51% — 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
LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP draws 100% 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. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$773k
- Department of Agriculture$210k
- Environmental Protection Agency$155k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP: 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 LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP?
- LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $831,987 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($274,991). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $831,987 in grants to LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $274,991 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP 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