Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,324,872

Total expenses

$1,016,572

Contributions and grants received

$1,311,252

Grants paid

$361,875

Program service revenue

$13,547

Investment income

$73

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$744,462

Total liabilities, end of year

$12,210

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$732,252

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$938,789

Management and general expenses

$55,871

Fundraising expenses

$21,912

Program service expenses (Part III)

$938,789

Program services were 92.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• LAND TRUST SUPPORT: KEEP IT COLORADO FUNDRAISES AND REGRANTS FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO LAND TRUSTS FOR TRANSACTION COST ASSISTANCE FOR PERPETUAL CONSERVATION EASEMENTS. THESE FUNDS ALLOW LANDOWNERS WHO FACE FINANCIAL BARRIERS TO CONVEY A CONSERVATION EASEMENT AND RECEIVE STATE TAX INCENTIVES FOR THEIR EASEMENT DONATION. IN 2022 THE GRANT PROGRAM SUPPORTED 14 PROJECTS ACROSS 8 LAND TRUSTS, CONSERVING MORE THAN 5,600 ACRES OF NATURAL AND WORKING LANDS AND RIVER CORRIDORS. ADDITIONALLY, KEEP IT COLORADO COMPLETED CONSERVING COLORADO: A 10-YEAR ROADMAP FOR THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION WITH ITS MEMBERSHIP. THIS STATEWIDE PLAN WILL BRING MORE STRATEGY AND COLLABORATION TO CONSERVATION WORK ACROSS THE STATE.

  Expenses $474,238 · Grants $361,875

• PUBLIC POLICY: KEEP IT COLORADO BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATORS AND POLICY MAKERS, SERVING AS THE UNIFIED VOICE FOR PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION. KEEP IT COLORADOS ADVOCACY INITIATIVES PROTECT AND ENHANCE STATE AND FEDERAL FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR VOLUNTARY LAND CONSERVATION, PROTECT THE LEGAL TOOLS FOR CONSERVATION AND ADVOCATE FOR SOUND PUBLIC POLICY TO SUPPORT LANDOWNERS AND COMMUNITIES DOING CONSERVATION. IN 2022 KEEP IT COLORADO WORKED TO PROTECT INVESTMENTS IN CONSERVATION BY ENSURING THAT CONDEMNED CONSERVATION PROPERTIES WERE VALUED FAIRLY.

  Expenses $256,862

• EDUCATION: KEEP IT COLORADO SERVES AS THE CENTRAL HUB FOR INFORMATION SHARING, PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING AND INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING IN THE CONSERVATION SPACE. KEEP IT COLORADO PROVIDES MULTIPLE STATEWIDE AND REGIONAL CONVENINGS, CONFERENCES, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ANNUALLY. THE COALITIONS NEWSLETTERS, WEBINARS AND IN-PERSON PRESENTATIONS REACH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ANNUALLY THROUGH COLORADO AND THE WEST. IN 2022 KEEP IT COLORADO HOSTED SEVEN ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP CONVENINGS FOCUSING ON INNOVATING CONSERVATION TOOLS, FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, AND BEST PRACTICES FOR LAND TRUSTS AND OPEN SPACE AGENCIES. KEEP IT COLORADO ALSO CONVENES MONTHLY CALLS FOR DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL SECTORS ACROSS THE CONSERVATION SPACE TO BUILD A COHESIVE COALITION ACROSS THE STATE.

  Expenses $207,689 · Revenue $13,547

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST

  $159,900

• LA PLATA OPEN SPACE CONSERVANCY

  $50,000

  CONSERVATION PROJECT

• RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST

  $50,000

  CONSERVATION PROJECT

• COLORADO WEST LAND TRUST

  $49,492

  CONSERVATION PROJECT

• PALMER LAND CONSERVANCY

  $38,900

  CONSERVATION PROJECT

• MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST

  $13,583

  CONSERVATION PROJECT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 October 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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