Colorado · Nonprofit
RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE
RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,000 to it, the largest being THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($46,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Rio Grande Watershed Conservation & Education Initiative does
Mission
To provide dynamic conservation education to the san luis valley community and to promote stewardship of our natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Youth conservation camp 2,3 day long camp to teach children ages 8-13 about natural resources and how to conserve them for future generations. We had 98 youth participate in 2025. The organization received donated services and use of facilities with a fair value of $5,986 for this program.
$56,102 spent48% of program spendingClass 2 field educational programs in which the curriculum provides students and teachers in grades k-12 an opportunity to experience conservation that is tied to colorado content standards through in class hands-on activities and field trips. Curriculum includes poster contest, community events, river trailer and ground water models, wetland trips, farm, field and wildlife area tours, a pumpkin patch, and water festival. Approximately 3,000 k-12 students participated in 2025 programming. The organization receives donated services and use of facilities with a fair value of $10,962 for this program.
$50,258 spent43% of program spendingSlv natural resource workshops for students in grades 9-12 in agriculture and science classes receive instructional and experiential learning facilitated by natural resource management professionals on the topics of forestry, aquatic ecology, wildlife, soil, and land management. In 2025, 250 students participated. The organization receives donated services and use of facilities with a fair value of $504 for this program.
$10,519 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,879.
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 2022 to 2023, from $47k to $67k (+44%).
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.
91% of RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Brian Neufeld
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $23k.
From the IRS filings of RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE’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
RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE draws 83% 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. 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
RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$60k
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 RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE
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
98%
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 RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE?
- RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,000 to it, the largest being THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($46,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $59,000 in grants to RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE?
- THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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