Colorado · Nonprofit
LINCOLN HILLS CARES
LINCOLN HILLS CARES (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,819,576 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($704,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $305k
What Lincoln Hills Cares does
Mission
Lincoln Hills Cares develops the next generation of young leaders through outdoor education and recreation, cultural history exploration, and workforce advancement. Our programs empower youth who may not otherwise have the opportunity, due to economic, social, or family circumstances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outdoor education and recreation highlights - reached 4,900+ youth through summer camps and school-year outdoor and environmental education programs across colorado. The nizhoni equestrian experience thrived, welcoming 6 girls over 7 weeks in partnership with windy creek ranch. Key accomplishments - hiring a nizhoni equestrian manager with over 15 years of equine experience, bringing extensive knowledge and expertise to the program. Relocating the program to the mountain education campus at lincoln hills, providing an enhanced environment for hands-on learning. Purchasing eight horses to support program expansion and participant engagement. Partnering with teamworks, community organizations, and estem sustainability specialists to design environmentally friendly horse trails on the ranch. Enhancing the nizhoni curriculum by incorporating: a history hike to winks lodge and an in-depth historical overview of camp nizhoni, enriching participants understanding of cultural heritage.
$368,259 spent44% of program spendingCareer pathways highlights: family & parent engagement: delivered college, career readiness, and financial literacy education to 30+ parents through the e-stem fwd initiative-strengthening whole-family pathways to postsecondary success. Community stewardship: engaged 15 dedicated volunteers in hands-on stewardship efforts, supporting cleanup and care of the lincoln hills ranch area.
$286,789 spent34% of program spendingE-stem fwd launch: successfully launched e-stem fwd (future workforce development) with 30 high school students from three school districts- denver public schools, aurora public schools, and adams 12-introducing real-world exposure to environmental science and career pathways. Outdoor infrastructure & access: designed and restored six walking trails totaling 2 miles, offering a 45-minute immersive experience at 8,170 feet above sea level in the rocky mountains-expanding safe, accessible outdoor learning environments at lincoln hills.
$186,026 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $841,074.
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 2023 to 2024, from $568k to $282k (−50%).
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 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 25% · 2024 31% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LINCOLN HILLS CARES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $16k → $400k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lincoln Hills Cares Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LINCOLN HILLS CARES raised.
From the IRS filings of LINCOLN HILLS CARES’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
LINCOLN HILLS CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 LINCOLN HILLS CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 59% · 2021 84% · 2022 59% · 2023 31% — 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
43% of LINCOLN HILLS CARES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
91% of LINCOLN HILLS CARES's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k 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
LINCOLN HILLS CARES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LINCOLN HILLS CARES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
- Department of the Interior$13k
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 LINCOLN HILLS CARES
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lincoln Hills Cares Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN HILLS CARES: 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 LINCOLN HILLS CARES?
- LINCOLN HILLS CARES (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,819,576 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($704,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN HILLS CARES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,819,576 in grants to LINCOLN HILLS CARES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN HILLS CARES?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $704,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN HILLS CARES 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.
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 21 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