Colorado · Nonprofit
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY (Colorado) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,161,097 to it, the largest being DORNICK FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Roaring Fork Conservancy does
Mission
To inspire people to explore, value, and protect the roaring fork watershed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: implemented meet your headwaters which provided 5th graders in basalt and aurora a 3-day immersive experience into their shared water supply.policy: completion of crystal river riverfront restoration after 8 years of stakeholder engagement, site assessment and planning, fundraising, and implementation which are provided instream and riparian benefits, and demonstrating functional headgate and instream diversion structure improvements, all on publicly owned and accessible land.water quality complete a two-year intensive process of robust water quality monitoring, significant outreach to stakeholders at federal, state and local levels, and a comprehensive proposal to the state water quality control commission, proposing several stream reaches to be listed as outstanding waters.and,leadership on the lincoln creek working group helping coordinate state and federal agencies to create and execute a novel sampling protocol.
$706,015 spent$404,212 earned by the program47% of program spendingVarious projects:crystal river project drought resiliency project keep it clean projectoutstanding waters project
$796,144 spent53% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,502,159.
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 $3.9M to $3.6M (−7%).
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 2% · 2019 7% · 2020 21% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 48% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Rick Lofaro
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $109k → $192k.
16 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
35% 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 ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 24% · 2019 22% · 2020 13% · 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY's funding base is broadening — from 27 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $254k on record.
- Department of the Interior$252k
- Department of Agriculture$2k
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 ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: 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 ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY?
- ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY (Colorado) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,161,097 to it, the largest being DORNICK FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $2,161,097 in grants to ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY?
- DORNICK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 88 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