Colorado · Nonprofit
PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND
PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,964 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($453,414). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $641k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $95k
What Peaks to People Water Fund does
Mission
The Peaks to People Water Fund aims to protect resources in the cache la poudre and big thompson watersheds by restoring forests to reduce the risk of severe wildfires. These forest restoration projects not only protect water from sedimentation and debris, but also improve forest health and habitat, decrease firefighting costs, and reduce home loss and infrastructure damage. Our goal is to dramatically accelerate forest restoration to reduce the threat of severe wildfire by engaging downstream water users to donate funds for this work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Over the past fiscal year, peaks to people worked to protect water resources in the cache la poudre and big thompson watersheds from the threat of wildfire. We supported forest health projects to protect important drinking water sources, and scoped additional projects to be funded in the next fiscal year. We convened the big thompson watershed health partnership and we are coordinating this collaborative group to increase the pace and scale of work in the watershed. We continued our partnership with the colorado forest restoration institute to further develop the science in the field to ensure funds are allocated to the most effective forest management projects and to continuously-improved methods for forest restoration. Through our website, blogging and social media, we educated the public about the importance of wildfire mitigation and water resources.
$463,278 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $463,278.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $354k to $250k (−29%).
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: 2022 11% · 2023 33% · 2024 70% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Lydia Lazar
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $259k → $175k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND’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
PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND
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
57%
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 PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND: 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 PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND?
- PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,964 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($453,414). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,121,964 in grants to PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $453,414 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEAKS TO PEOPLE WATER FUND 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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