Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
“Protect and preserve the natural integrity of Colorado’s highest peaks.”
10 funders on the record, 82 cents of every dollar to the work.
The work
What they do
Trail building and restoration on Colorado’s 54 fourteeners, most on USFS and BLM lands. Volunteer crews and professional trail workers address heavy foot traffic.
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
Volunteer-Based Mountain Trail Restoration
$1.8M, 82% of spendingAnd construction projects and educational programs.
Read it as they filed it
VOLUNTEER-BASED MOUNTAIN TRAIL RESTORATION AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.
IRS Form 990 Part III for fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
82 cents of every dollar goes to the work
A good sign, not a scorecard: what matters is the extremes, and this is nowhere near one.
$1,774,718 programs, $220,399 management, $179,584 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The backers
Backed, each with its source, by Chrest Foundation, Tgff, National Forest Foundation and 7 others, latest filing FY25.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at CFI? Claim this page.
Those 545 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If CFI is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Find your way inThe filings
14 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year as filed. Point at or tap the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $845,957 |
| 2012 | $806,760 |
| 2013 | $963,011 |
| 2014 | $880,127 |
| 2015 | $931,292 |
| 2016 | $1,088,468 |
| 2017 | $1,261,518 |
| 2018 | $1,615,101 |
| 2019 | $1,543,528 |
| 2020 | $1,573,583 |
| 2021 | $1,827,685 |
| 2022 | $2,111,014 |
| 2023 | $2,038,169 |
| 2025 | $2,584,530 |
From $846K in 2011 to $2.6M in FY25, across 14 public filings (none on record for 2024).
The returns as e-filed with the IRS, 3 years:
- FY2025Download the return
- FY2024Download the return
- FY2023Download the return
Source: IRS Form 990 e-file data, each return by its IRS object id, served by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. A year in the chart without a link here is read from a later return’s own history table; its return is on ProPublica’s page for the group.
Their ground
CFI is not on our editors’ record for a threatened place yet. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
The Colorado congressional delegation averages 57 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Ways in
How to help
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
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