Colorado · Nonprofit
Mancos Valley Resources
Mancos Valley Resources (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,101,362 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($508,778). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $307k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $705k
What Mancos Valley Resources does
Mission
To Preserve and enhance the cultural, historical, recreational, educational and charitable assets of the Mancos Valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mancos Food Share provides a weekly community pantry. Cooking classes are offered to anyone interested and they also manage a seed share and plant swap. In 2025, an estimated 476 people were helped by 8 volunteers donating over 630 hours.
$31,130 spent27% of program spendingPay It Forward Fund uses donated funds to assist residents in the 81328 zip code area with rent, utilities, food and non-medical bills. 20 indivduals were helped in 2025. About 60 hours were donated by 2 volunteers.
$21,503 spent19% of program spendingMVR is a community based umbrella organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the unique agricultural, charitable, cultural, educational, historical, and recreational assets of the Mancos Valley. 14 projects and organizations were helped in 2025. MVR also provided seven scholarships to residents of Mancos Valley to further their education. There were 8 volunteers (including board members) who donated about 96 hours of service.
$13,000 spent$7,363 earned by the program11% of program spendingMancos Trails Group works to maintain 47 miles of trails at the Aqueduct, Chicken Creek and Mancos Spur trail heads. Also coordinated with US Forest Service to complete trail maintenance evaluation. An estimated 41544 residents of Mancos and visitors benefit from these projects. There were 84 volunteers that provided about 1,723 hours of service.
$10,631 spent$3,676 earned by the program9% of program spendingMancos Giving Tree provides holiday gifts, meals and energy vouchers to families in the Mancos area at Christmas time. A dinner was also provided for several individuals. In 2025, about 260 individuals were offered assistance by about 10 volunteers who donated about 150 hours of service.
$10,315 spent9% of program spendingMancos Gear Share acquired donations of gear and secured a grant to be able to established a fully stocked gear library. They developed a functioning website with an inventory and registration process.
$8,484 spent7% of program spendingArmida Huerta Adventure Fund Scholarships ran on pack-rafting course in the summer of 2025 and held a fund-raiser in October. Eight volunteers provided about 450 hours of volunteer work serving 14 individuals.
$8,000 spent7% of program spendingFriends of Chicken Creek Cross Country Ski Corp provided over 15 kilometers of groomed trails for Nordic skiing, skate skiing and snowshoeing on a safe ground surface in the San Juan National Forest. About 120 hours were donated by 24 volunteers in 2025, an unknown number people used the ski runs.
$4,362 spent4% of program spendingMt Lookout Grange #338 (MLG) rents its building out for community events and, in cooperation with Mancos Food Share, provides community dinners and fund raising events. In 2025, about 43 volunteers provided approximately 1,200 hours of service to help over 3,000 individuals.
$3,214 spent3% of program spendingMancos Valley Farmers Market provides a venue at Boyle Park in Mancos for local growers to market and sell there produce to local residents during the summer months. In 2025, an estimated 225 customers took advantage of the market. Over 150 volunteer hours were donated by 3 volunteers.
$3,207 spent3% of program spendingMancos Valley Chorus presented free concerts in Montezuma County including concerts at 'The Valley Inn' retirement home, Mancos Elementary School and for the general public at the Methodist Church in Mancos as well as in Cortez. 50 volunteer members provided over 1,300 hours for services to well over 1,300 attendees in 2025.
$525 spent0% of program spendingMontezuma Youth Alliance involved at-risk youth in the following activities: Take 6 high school and middle school students to the Purgatory SOS program; provide a safe place for youth to be in the evenings (Teen Night); Take two youth ambassadors to a Tony Grampsas conference; provide Reading Buddies in collaboration with MPL and offer a Reading Buddies extension to include youth from 9 to 17 years old;execute a strategic planning meeting with SC; and provided a successful Skate Night series from May to November. In 2025, Montezuma Youth Alliance has seprated from MVR into its own organization.
$296 spent0% of program spendingMartin Luther King Jr Breakfast is an annual free community pancake breakfast to honor Martin Luther King, Jr's on his birthday. The Breakfast is self-sustaining and has been provided for 17 years. In 2025, 21 volunteers donated about 52 hours to serve 125 individuals.
$245 spent0% of program spendingPainted Turtle Studio was able to increase class offering, fill classes and gain more visibility for local artists. There was about 2600 hours donated by 25 volunteers serving about 3,500 individuals in 2025.
$75 spent0% of program spendingTurning Wild hosted a youth woodworking education class and a youth metalworking project to leverage creativity to enhance relationships. In 2025, two volunteers spent about 120 hours teaching classes to approximately 12 youth.
$50 spent0% of program spendingChicken Creek Coalition is a grassroots, community-based coalition of ranchers, hikers, bikers, equestrians, cross-country skiers, dog walkers, and local property owners that operate to preserve access to and assure safety on public lands in the Chicken Creek area that are threatened by the Freeland Holders Committee illegal claims of ownership.
The 16 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,037.
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 2019 to 2020, from $184k to $583k (+217%).
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: 2018 13% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 22% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Mancos Valley Resources’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $185k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Mancos Valley Resources’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
Mancos Valley Resources leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 Mancos Valley Resources.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 55% · 2022 45% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of Mancos Valley Resources'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
85% of Mancos Valley Resources's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Mancos Valley Resources runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Mancos Valley Resources receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$57k
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 Mancos Valley Resources
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mancos Valley Resources: 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 Mancos Valley Resources?
- Mancos Valley Resources (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,101,362 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($508,778). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mancos Valley Resources have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,101,362 in grants to Mancos Valley Resources, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mancos Valley Resources?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $508,778 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mancos Valley Resources 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