Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
“Motivate and enable people to be stewards of Colorado’s natural resources.”
The work
What they do
Organizes large-scale volunteer stewardship projects on Colorado’s public lands including national forests, BLM lands, and parks. Trail building, habitat restoration.
Every year they sign one sentence and file it with the federal government: “MOTIVATE AND ENABLE PEOPLE TO BE ACTIVE STEWARDS OF COLORADO'S NATURAL RESOURCES.”
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
Boots on the ground
$1.1MPROVIDES ESSENTIAL ON-THE-GROUND WORK ORGANIZED INTO OVER 100 ANNUAL VOLUNTEER STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS INVOLVING PERSONS OF ALL AGES FROM DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AIMED AT PRESERVING, PROTECTING AND ENHANCING COLORADO’S NATURAL...
Read it as they filed it
STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS, TRAINING AND STATEWIDE CAPACITY: PROVIDES ESSENTIAL ON-THE-GROUND WORK ORGANIZED INTO OVER 100 ANNUAL VOLUNTEER STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS INVOLVING PERSONS OF ALL AGES FROM DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AIMED AT PRESERVING, PROTECTING AND ENHANCING COLORADO'S NATURAL RESOURCES; DESIGNS AND IMPLEMENTS NEW TOOLS TO TEACH OTHERS; AND LEADS COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO GROW AND SUSTAIN A ROBUST NATURAL RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP COMMUNITY THAT EXTENDS BEYOND THE ORGANIZATION. IN 2025, 1,716 VOC VOLUNTEERS CONTRIBUTED OVER 27,866 HOURS OF VOLUNTEER TIME VALUED AT 1,079,529 TO OUTDOOR PROJECTS ACROSS THE STATE.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
79 cents of every dollar goes to the work
Read it as a snapshot, not a scorecard. Splits move year to year with grants and campaigns, and healthy shops live all across this range.
$1,137,110 programs, $197,975 management, $103,913 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. Orgs that claim their page can update it same-day. Work at VOC? Claim this page.
Those 1,716 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If VOC is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Make it 1,717The filings
14 years of filings
14 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $1,479,269 |
| 2012 | $1,168,546 |
| 2013 | $1,168,002 |
| 2014 | $997,814 |
| 2015 | $1,029,050 |
| 2016 | $1,671,529 |
| 2017 | $1,181,213 |
| 2018 | $1,311,951 |
| 2019 | $1,479,070 |
| 2020 | $1,135,662 |
| 2021 | $1,492,810 |
| 2022 | $1,346,458 |
| 2023 | $2,187,904 |
| 2025 | $1,751,549 |
From $1.5M in 2011 to $1.8M in FY25, across 14 public filings.
The Colorado congressional delegation averages 60 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Ways in
How to help
79 cents of your dollar goes straight to the work above.
Give on their site ↗Show upVolunteer with themFind their volunteer door on their own site.
Find it on their site ↗SpeakComment and callOpen comment windows and call scripts for fights like these, ready to send.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapStand with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
42 years on the ground, 1,716 volunteers, 79 cents of every dollar on the line. That is who is holding it. There is room for one more.