Colorado · Nonprofit
WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER
WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($77,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $-27313
What Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve & Edu Cation Center does
Mission
Willowtail springs nature preserve and education center was organized to conserve, expand and improve the existing 60 acres of willowtail springs, its buildings and its diverse and rich eco systems; to support and encourage those who seek to conserve, protect, and renew nature; to promote education through the arts and sciences; and to provide a protected environment, allowing those practitioners to pursue their vision through exploration, reflection, research, collaboration and creative talents. Of growing importance is the community "giveback" which is part of this residency program. This involves classes, presentations, demonstrations, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and lectures which the residents share with the community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
2023 was a big year for willowtail. All our events in 2023 were free to the public as part of our presentation to the community resulting from the scholarship residents' payback for their time at willowtail. Peggy was featured on metv, a station out of denver. She was interviewed by jennifer broome. Lorena williams presented a writing workshop in the treehouse gallery. Patrice day lorenzo held a meditative painting workshop. Sharon wolf presented a botanical painting class. Sw youth conservation corp came for two weeks and created a new, beautiful path from the parking area through the forest and over a stream to the main willowtail center. Poetry reading and medicinal plant walk with eirene hamilton. Beginning of our new program of free garden tours for the public. These continued every month, may through october. Some of these included a talk or presentation on specific areas of plants and gardening. Brenda jones ceramic workshop. Anne wetherill reading poetry. Josh mendrala gave a music clinic at fenceline cidery. Navajo playwrite, blossom johnson, hosted a reading of her new play written at willowtail. Windswept trio performed at turquoise raven gallery in cortez to a packed…
$90,879 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,879.
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 2021 to 2022, from $26k to $5k (−79%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $17k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION 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
WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 84% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER has grown faster than half of the 4,135 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,135 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER?
- WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($77,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $92,200 in grants to WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $77,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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