Colorado · Nonprofit
The Kiva Center
The Kiva Center (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,331 to it, the largest being FAIRFAX FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $156k
What The Kiva Center does
Mission
The Kiva Center's mission is to build inner strength and compassion in youth through transformational natureconnection experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Homeschool Enrichment Program runs 5 days/week throughout the school year at a local wilderness site. In 2025 it served 100 students ages 5-17, providing a total of 960 hours of nature connection programming. Children learn hands-on ancestral skills, teamwork, social-emotional skills, and environmental stewardship. In 2025, 13 adult mentors were trained in community-centered, nature-based education. Additionally, 4 teenagers gained leadership skills and work experience through the growing Mentor In Training (MIT) Program. A total of 75% of students attended for free or through a partial scholarship in 2025.
$186,148 spent$255,028 earned by the program64% of program spendingEco-Explorers Afterschool Program: This afterschool program is a primarily outdoors-based class focused on nature connection. It is funded by grants, and in 2025 it was provided for free to 56 students ages 5-14 at two under-resourced inner-city elementary schools and one middle school in Denver. Two teengagers from the community worked as Mentors in Training in this program, gaining real-life leadership and work experience.
$79,569 spent$28,001 earned by the program28% of program spendingIntergenerational Community and Family Programs: Kiva Center's family programs include community-building days on the land, guided trips, and seasonal celebrations. These events feature culturally-relevant activities such as music and art in nature, land restoration, celebrating heritage, and sharing meals. In 2025, Kiva Center hosted 5 free or donation-based family events that served approximately 413 people through these programs.
$23,193 spent$5,559 earned by the program8% of program spendingSchool Enrichment Workshops: These programs integrate social emotional learning with nature-based education to build resilient communities. In 2025, Kiva Center partnered with two local middle and high schools to serve 248 children through this program. The children participated in such activities as survival skills and teambuilding in nature.Rooted in Wonder Professional Development Program: This is an annual, multi-day immersive experience in nature for educators, parents, and community leaders who aspire to integrate nature-based practices into their professional or home lives. In 2025, this program served 18 participants.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,910.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $149k to $222k (+48%).
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: 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of The Kiva Center’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $63k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Kiva Center’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 Kiva Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 96% · 2022 28% · 2023 40% — 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
57% of The Kiva Center's funders are still giving 1 year 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
The Kiva Center draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Kiva Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Kiva Center
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
87%
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 The Kiva Center: 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 Kiva Center?
- The Kiva Center (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,331 to it, the largest being FAIRFAX FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Kiva Center have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $300,331 in grants to The Kiva Center, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Kiva Center?
- FAIRFAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Kiva Center 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing