Colorado · Nonprofit
SHADOWCLIFF
SHADOWCLIFF (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,638 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($7,638). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Shadowcliff does
Mission
Shadowcliff is a mountain sanctuary that holds space for individual and collective transformation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Launched pilot artist residency program funded by a donor initiative, providing free lodging, travel and food stipends, and honoraria for five artists. The residency offered time and space for creative development and included field experiences with local partners as well as a public practice-sharing event connecting artists with the grand lake community.
$5,450 spent$89,147 earned by the program4% of program spendingProvided retreat space for more than 150 participants through mission- aligned group retreats, educational gatherings, and personal retreats. Programs included lighthouse writers workshop, center states tai chi, the hiv/aids retreat with educat10n network, and other creative, educational, and wellness retreats. Shadowcliff also welcomed individual retreatants seeking time for reflection, learning, and connection with the natural environment. These programs support Shadowcliffs educational mission by providing structured opportunities for learning, creative development, and contemplative practice in a retreat setting.
$109,698 spent$96,697 earned by the program90% of program spendingHosted volunteer and public programs that connected participants with local ecology and community initiatives. Activities included a memorial day volunteer service weekend, a community july 4th gathering, and the colorado headwaters land trust stargazing event highlighting grand lakes dark sky initiative. Shadowcliff also advanced environmental education through native species planting and maintenance of the laws of nature trail.
$6,212 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $121,360.
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 $375k to $1.2M (+215%).
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 15% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 44% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of SHADOWCLIFF’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 9 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
Kelly Yarbrough
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 SHADOWCLIFF’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
SHADOWCLIFF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 SHADOWCLIFF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
SHADOWCLIFF draws 100% 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. $8k 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
SHADOWCLIFF runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHADOWCLIFF
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
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SHADOWCLIFF: 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 SHADOWCLIFF?
- SHADOWCLIFF (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,638 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($7,638). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHADOWCLIFF have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,638 in grants to SHADOWCLIFF, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHADOWCLIFF?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $7,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHADOWCLIFF 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