Colorado · Nonprofit
SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION
SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,862 to it, the largest being J F SHEA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($57,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Schweiger Ranch Foundation does
Mission
Provide recreational and educational opportunities to foster an understanding and enjoyment of the area's cultural and natural heritage through displays, demonstrations, interpretive programs, and special events for the benefit of the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Receive grants and donations from various cities, municipalities, corporations, and individuals for the restoration and public benefit programming at schweiger ranch. Grants received during the year are considered contribution revenue, which is not presented on line 4a above. See line 1 of part viii for contribution activity related to this program.
$208,716 spentof which $2,064 as grants100% of program spendingRanch rental, special events to open the ranch to the public, raise animals, and sell consumable by-products.
$0 spent$3,171 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $208,716.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $1.8M (−5%).
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 18% · 2020 30% · 2021 6% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $21k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION’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
SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 55% · 2023 58% — 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
SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ridgegate Investments Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION: 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 SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION?
- SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,862 to it, the largest being J F SHEA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($57,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $126,862 in grants to SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION?
- J F SHEA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION 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.
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 5 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