Colorado · Nonprofit
ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION
ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,061,219 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,317,800). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Onward a Legacy Foundation does
Mission
Onward! Is a tax-exempt, non-profit community foundation organized for public charity purposes. Onward!'s mission is to provide opportunities to develop and maintain a sustainable resource base that will enhance the quality of life for residents in the four corners' communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
ADMINISTRATION OF 43 FISCAL FUNDS. THE LARGEST FUNDS ARE RELATED TO School Community Youth, after school programs, Food Equity programs, Canyon lands preservation/education and apple orchard restoration.
$2,988,490 spentof which $162,404 as grants$4,108,628 earned by the program89% of program spendingAdministration of 7 donor-advised funds which made grants to 18 non-profit and government organizations.
$121,185 spentof which $104,000 as grants$144,347 earned by the program4% of program spendingAdministration of 22 scholarship funds which paid scholarships to 101 individuals.
$103,425 spent$326,135 earned by the program3% of program spendingAdministration of 13 miscellaneous special interest funds.
$64,768 spentof which $27,300 as grants$187,696 earned by the program2% of program spendingAdministration of 5 endowment funds which provided grants to 19 non-profits.
$63,511 spentof which $50,713 as grants$125,147 earned by the program2% of program spendingAdministration of 8 agency funds. Onward invests funds on behalf of these different non-profits for various purposes, including reserve funds, building funds and long-term strategic funds.
$1 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,341,380.
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 $6.6M to $8.0M (+21%).
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 7% · 2018 15% · 2019 46% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
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
Charles R Forth Jr
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $33k → $523k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $22k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Onward a Legacy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 79% · 2020 47% · 2021 39% · 2022 65% · 2023 58% — 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
33% of ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
75% of ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $507k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $594k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$594k
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 ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: 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 ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION?
- ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,061,219 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,317,800). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,061,219 in grants to ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,317,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 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