Colorado · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER
MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,368,100 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($1,429,845). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared funders
- Caring Connectionportfolio match
- Onward a Legacy Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 24% · 2018 19% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2022 19% · 2023 31% · 2024 24% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $686k → $709k.
14 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
90% 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 MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 39% · 2019 38% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 44% · 2023 33% — 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
61% of MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
82% of MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 57 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Caring Connectionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Onward a Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gazette Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Coloradoshared fundersCA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Caring for Colorado Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 160 organizations that share your funders
- Av Hunter Trust Incorporatedshared fundersCO · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Caring for Denver Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- The Connie Burwell White and William W White Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Delta Dental of Coloradoshared fundersCO · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- The Denver Children's Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95%
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 MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER?
- MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,368,100 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($1,429,845). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,368,100 in grants to MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER?
- COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,429,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER 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 57funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing