Colorado · Nonprofit
Public Counsel of the Rockies
Public Counsel of the Rockies (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Public Counsel of the Rockies does
Mission
The mission is to "balance the scales" of significant conservation, water & energy and public justice issues in the region.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conservation Opportunities including St Benedicts Monastery in Old Snowmass CO, the Hummingbird Ranch in the North Fork Valley CO and other large land preservation efforts in the Roaring Fork and Grand River Valleys. Daily work to found, develop, populate and chair the board of Aspen Journalism, a local non profit investigative reporting organization growing rapidly, winning major journalism awards each year and to soon begin publishing The Aspen Journal.Daily work to fund and guide the mission and development of the Hunter Creek Historical Foundation, working in partnership with the White River National Forest, Historicorp, and the Trust for public land to stabilize and preserve the remaining structures in the Hunter Creek Valley and the important cultural and archaeological history of the valley supplying the early silver mining town the first dairy farm, produce, sawmill and pristine fresh water and later the first hydro power from the 1880's on.Ongoing fundraising for Aspen Journalism, Aspen Valley Land Trust, Hunter creek historical foundation, Wilderness workshop and the Carbondale Clay Center.Additional efforts throughout 2021 and beyond managing public counsel also…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $88k to $64k (−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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $500.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Public Counsel of the Rockies’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
Public Counsel of the Rockies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Public Counsel of the Rockies.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
69% of Public Counsel of the Rockies's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Public Counsel of the Rockies
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.
Public support
0%
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 Public Counsel of the Rockies: 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 Public Counsel of the Rockies?
- Public Counsel of the Rockies (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Public Counsel of the Rockies have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $43,250 in grants to Public Counsel of the Rockies, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Counsel of the Rockies?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Counsel of the Rockies 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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