Colorado · Nonprofit
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,108 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($162,634). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $336k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $581k
- Net assets
- $544k
What The Cloud Foundation does
Mission
The Cloud Foundation is dedicated to preventing the extinction of cloud's herd through education, media events and programming, and public involvement. We are also determined to protect other wild horse herds on public lands, especially isolated herds with unique characteristics and historical significance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Cloud Foundation founder, ginger kathrens, is regularly invited to speak at national and international meetings and conferences advocating the preservation of wild horses and burros. The foundation has been featured on abc, nbc, cnn, and pbs, educating a national audience about the need to preserve wild horses and burros. Tcf attends the bureau of land management (blm) national meetings regarding the management of wild horses and burros. Kathrens and other tcf board members give public comment on the need to reform the management of wild horses and burros both on the range and in captivity. Tcf comments on all environmental assessments, which deal with the planned removal of wild horses and burros from public lands. Tcf director kathrens writes articles for national and international publications on the issue. Tcf speaks at schools, creates educational materials, and produces educational videos and still presentations regarding wild horses and burros. Tcf collaborates with other organizations to promote the protection of wild horses and burros.since its inception (2005) tcf has directly rescued dozens of mustangs that were bound for dirt holding areas managed by the government…
$266,146 spent$-4,841 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $266,146.
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 2018 to 2019, from $246k to $463k (+88%).
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 13% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of THE CLOUD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kerry Ferguson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $43k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 THE CLOUD 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
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 THE CLOUD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 35% · 2021 49% · 2022 40% · 2023 57% — 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
40% of THE CLOUD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
62% of THE CLOUD FOUNDATION'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 $223k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CLOUD 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE CLOUD 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 THE CLOUD FOUNDATION?
- THE CLOUD FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,108 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($162,634). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CLOUD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $581,108 in grants to THE CLOUD FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CLOUD FOUNDATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $162,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CLOUD 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.
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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 24 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