Colorado · Nonprofit
TALL TALES RANCH
TALL TALES RANCH (Colorado) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,567,719 to it, the largest being THE GALENA FOUNDATION ($505,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Tall Tales Ranch does
Mission
Tall tles ranch provides community integration for individuals with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities through community connections, vocational training and employment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization offers social and enrichment programs and life skills classes. The programs cover a wide range of engaging and relevant topics rooted in the values of lifelong learning, accessibility, community, health and wellness, and social connection.
$386,068 spent$28,589 earned by the program100% of program spendingWe operate a mobile coffee trailer and coffee catering company that serves as a vehicle for our vocational training program and offers employement to young adults with special needs every year.
The young professional board is a group of neurodiverse young adults in the denver metro area who are committeed to raising community awareness and advancing the mission of Tall Tales Ranch. We parter with others that want to make an impact in the community, all while learning new professional skills and enjoying social opportunities together.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $386,068.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $4.4M (+56%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 17% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of TALL TALES RANCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 28 funders, grant income rose $3k → $516k.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 TALL TALES RANCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
TALL TALES RANCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
38% 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 TALL TALES RANCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 37% · 2020 64% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of TALL TALES RANCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
75% of TALL TALES RANCH's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $915k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
TALL TALES RANCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TALL TALES 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH?
- TALL TALES RANCH (Colorado) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,567,719 to it, the largest being THE GALENA FOUNDATION ($505,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALL TALES RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,567,719 in grants to TALL TALES RANCH, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALL TALES RANCH?
- THE GALENA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALL TALES 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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