Colorado · Nonprofit
Selah Mountain Ranch
Selah Mountain Ranch (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,458 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($8,722). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Selah Mountain Ranch does
Mission
Provide life services for foster children and families, including aged-out young adults, elderly and other needy. This includes meals, clothes, children's toys and gifts, subsidized housing, light home construction and repair services, life skills and on-the-job training for needy adolescents and young adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Creston's Home provides subsidized housing for prior aged-out foster individuals and their families. In conjunction with Fostering Hope, provided a single family home for three aged-out foster adults, followed by a family of three, headed by a former foster aged-out mother. Upgraded the home with necessary repairs plus furniture and appliances. 2024 was a continuation of 2023. The same family of 3, single mom with 2 small children lived in the home for all of 2024. She lived in Crestons home and worked a program through continuating adulthood, another 501c3 in Colorado Springs for aged out foster kids. This mom was able to enroll in a cooking trade school and finish the program December 2024 due to the rental assistance and safe home Crestons home provided. We are proud of the home we provide and to have raised enough to replace windows and doors as well as paint the inside of the home. 2025 we will pursue another to occupy the home.
$51,313 spent$15,025 earned by the program43% of program spendingPush-Start provides light construction and repair services, including remodeling, repair, new light construction and handyman services. These are provided at full price for most clients, and discounted or free for needy clients. This activity also covers the cost of taking on disadvantaged young adults and providing life-skill training and on-the-job work experience and training. Among our community impact projects, we helped a widow whose deck was falling over by building her a new one. Helped a 19 year old single mom get reliable transportation. Put in new fl ooring for another single mom and more. We heavily invested in the discipleship and mental health of Lauren who came to Christ this year! I think that was the most beautiful part of my suffering. As Lauren watched me suffer and keep faith, she came to faith herself and has held that faith despite her many physical and mental health struggles. As always, we conclude this year with our commitment to fi scal transparency. We received $31,524.02 in donations this year. We invested $32,853.29 into the community. This was only accomplished through God?s grace. With how diffi cult this year was it is truly an act of God that we…
$34,103 spent$92,454 earned by the program29% of program spendingSelah Mountain was involved in many projects in 2024. We sponsored karate classes all year for at risk children in the fremont county area. The children received quality instruction from a black belt instructor and went from a white belt to yellow belt. This program is on going. We began training with children at Red Rock Stable in our Equine Assisted Learning Program. 5 local foster/adopted children completed the program in 2024. This program will expand in 2025. In 2024 Selah Mountain was able to help over 100 homeless adults and at risk children with needed personal items including diapers, home goods, giftcards, clothes and backpacks with personal hygiene essentials. Our biggest event, "Stuff a Stocking" was the biggest to date. We served over 500 children with new christmas stockings with all new fun stocking items. We also provided each child with a new toy or bike given by Santa. Lunch ,cookies, cocoa was served for free during the 2 day event. This year we invited teachers from the local elementary and jr/sr highschool. The teachers "shopped" for new fun items to give to their homeroom classes. We expect 2025 to be even bigger. We have added a new ministry under our Selah…
$32,806 spent$48,585 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,222.
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 $26k to $94k (+254%).
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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Selah Mountain Ranch’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $33.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Selah Mountain Ranch’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
Selah Mountain Ranch leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
100% 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 Selah Mountain Ranch.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of Selah Mountain Ranch'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
Selah Mountain Ranch has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Selah Mountain Ranch
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Selah Mountain Ranch: 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 Selah Mountain Ranch?
- Selah Mountain Ranch (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,458 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($8,722). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Selah Mountain Ranch have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,458 in grants to Selah Mountain Ranch, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Selah Mountain Ranch?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,722 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Selah Mountain Ranch 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 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