Colorado · Nonprofit
PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC
PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,151 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $277k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Purgatoire Watershed Partnership Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to restore, protect, and enhance the purgatoire river watershed through stakeholder engagement, collaboration, education, and on-the-ground work for the benefit of all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2023 overview of program accomplishments - community stewardship/education/training events - holding 25 on-the- ground community education/training/stewardship events and serving 574 number of attendees through this effort, and cleaning 372 bags of trash out of the purgatoire river. - at-risk youth/young adults stewardship & education events - holding 4 at risk youth/young adult education and stewardship events working with mile high youth corps, and serving 45 attendees through this effort - k-12 youth outdoor education program events - held eleven k-12 youth outdoor education program events serving 480 attendees through this effort. - have completed additional phased work on expanded multi-user 4.5 million project on the purgatoire river - the baca-picketwire diversion dam restoration complex project - working with a host of partners including agriculture, recreation, ecological, municipal, and local developers. Project focuses on improving irrigation infrastructure, installing fish passage, installing boat passage, woody invasive species management, installing fish habitat structures. - fuels mitigation in the upper purgatoire watershed - completed 4 weeks of important fuels…
$433,329 spent$5,299 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $433,329.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $44k to $120k (+170%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC’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. 0 of the last 4 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
Tom Verquer
Chair/presid
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC’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
PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 46% — 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
PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76 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
PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.7M
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 PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC?
- PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,151 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $89,151 in grants to PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP INC?
- NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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