Colorado · Nonprofit
WILD CONNECTIONS INC
WILD CONNECTIONS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,166 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($115,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $543k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Wild Connections Inc does
Mission
Protect and preserve wildlands and biodiversity in the Upper Arkansas and South Platte Watersheds in Central Colorado
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Land Management: Engaging with Federal Land Management Agencies to promote biodiversity protection and climate resilience. Major project is engaging in the Bureau of Land Management's Eastern Colorado Management Plan Revision process and other Bureau of Land Management projects. Influenced Bureau of Land Management plan revision that protects over 110,000 acres of Lands with Wilderness Characteristics.
$61,868 spent72% of program spendingHabitat Restoration: Work with USDA Forest Service to obliterate routes that are off-limits to motorized use to reduce habitat fragmentation and stop unauthorized incursion. Restoration work near the Tarryall Reservoir is limiting disturbance in an important migration corridor between the Lost Creek Wilderness and South Park.
$18,171 spent21% of program spendingEducation and Outreach: Published the Landscapes Magazine twice a year, produced webinars, lead educational hikes and outings, and engaged with our supporters through email and social media to teach about the importance of protecting biodiversity and climate resilience and how to engage with land management agencies to support conservation.
$6,203 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,242.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $129k to $67k (−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.
100% of WILD CONNECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
James Lockhart
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $47k → $57k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 WILD CONNECTIONS 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
WILD CONNECTIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
44% 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 WILD CONNECTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 41% · 2019 32% · 2020 50% · 2021 39% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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
73% of WILD CONNECTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
WILD CONNECTIONS INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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
WILD CONNECTIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WILD CONNECTIONS 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.
Public support
69%
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 WILD CONNECTIONS 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 WILD CONNECTIONS INC?
- WILD CONNECTIONS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,166 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($115,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $543,166 in grants to WILD CONNECTIONS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD CONNECTIONS INC?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD CONNECTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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