Colorado · Nonprofit
TRAILS 2000 INC
TRAILS 2000 INC (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,656 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($115,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $420k
- Net assets
- $506k
What Trails 2000 Inc does
Mission
Durango trails plans, builds and maintains world class trails; educates the community and creates connectivity. By partnering with land agencies, durango trails hires seasonal crew leaders to lead volunteer groups on trailwork, stewardship and education projects. The work encourages the community to connect with the outdoors, enhancing health and community involvement. Durango trails works with the area land managers, on city, county, blm, usfs, and private lands, to provide trails that are the gateway to the outdoors which significantly improves the economic, physical, emotional and social well-being of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Working with area land managers, the organization works from april through october on the world class trails and oversee over 25-45 public and private volunteer trail projects each season in order to steward, conserve, and maintain the area trails for residents and visitors. Organizing volunteer days; educating the community via programs, ambassadors, social media, and our website; encouraging connectivity to enhance the trail network is directly tied to the economic, physical, and social well-being benefits to the community. There was approximately 1,000 hours of volunteer service on the trails, valued at $33,000.
$285,220 spent$1,225 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $285,220.
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 2019 to 2020, from $215k to $337k (+57%).
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 6% · 2021 20% · 2023 4% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TRAILS 2000 INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Gersbach Venzara
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $12k → $84k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 TRAILS 2000 INC’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
TRAILS 2000 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
85% 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 TRAILS 2000 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 40% · 2019 46% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — 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
71% of TRAILS 2000 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 TRAILS 2000 INC'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 $105k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TRAILS 2000 INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRAILS 2000 INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 TRAILS 2000 INC: 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 TRAILS 2000 INC?
- TRAILS 2000 INC (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,656 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($115,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRAILS 2000 INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $419,656 in grants to TRAILS 2000 INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAILS 2000 INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAILS 2000 INC 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 21 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