Colorado · Nonprofit
NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC
NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,039,917 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($156,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $677k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $448k
What Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc does
Mission
The western slope conservation center works to build an active and aware community to protect and enhance the lands, air, water, and wildlife of the lower gunnison watershed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conservation assistance programs and administering various grants for conservation purposes.
$557,318 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $557,318.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $546k to $697k (+28%).
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: 2020 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 31% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Julie Sapena
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $40k → $149k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
78% 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 NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 44% · 2019 59% · 2020 32% · 2021 35% · 2022 27% · 2023 20% — 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
41% of NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
68% of NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.6M
- Department of Agriculture$6k
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 NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC: 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 NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC?
- NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,039,917 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($156,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,039,917 in grants to NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC?
- WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $156,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 35 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