Colorado · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE
SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,289 to it, the largest being TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ($40,694). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Southwest Institute for Resilience does
Mission
Sustainability and local food initiative
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The norwood community garden is a small project of swirl. This community group provides a gathering place for locals to grow their own food, learn and share their knowledge
$2,186 spent4% of program spendingRidgway community apiarys mission is to raise awareness of the significance of honeybees as pollinators and share educational methods for chemical-free bee hosting
$397 spent1% of program spendingTelluride farmers market is now in its 24th year. Swirl executes contracts and oversees all functions. Working with multiple vendors providing locally grown fresh & prepared food
$47,051 spent85% of program spendingOther program services
$5,747 spentof which $6,650 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,381.
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 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $48k (+139%).
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.
88% of SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Melanie Eggers
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $17k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE’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
SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
52% of SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE'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. Of the $38k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE's revenue fell 18% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: 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 SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE?
- SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,289 to it, the largest being TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ($40,694). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $78,289 in grants to SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE?
- TELLURIDE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE 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 2021–2025), 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