POUDRE WILDERNESS VOLUNTEERS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C60

Classification

2000

Street

2519 S SHIELDS ST STE 1K PMB 202

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Mission and programs · 2025

• The Results PWV has grown from 105 founding members in 1996 to 300 members in 2025. Poudre Wilderness Volunteers patrol approximately 290 miles along 70 trails in 650,000 acres of Wilderness, general National Forest, and National Grassland lands. PWV's efforts include establishing a: * Trail Crew to address insufficient USFS funds and personnel to clear fallen trees and other damage to trails. * Weed Crew helps the USFS locate, control, and eradicate noxious weeds. * Kids in Nature Program to support the USFS Kids in the Woods program. * Restoration Program when wildfires and floods ravaged the Canyon Lakes Ranger District. * Trails for ALL Program to foster safe, fun, and educational connections to the outdoors for people of all abilities. * Environmental stewardship and public outreach via the activities of other PWV programs, such as Adopt-a-Trail. Poudre Wildnerss Volunteers (PWV) has grown from 105 founding members in 1996 to 300 members in 2025. PWV patrols approximately 315 miles along 65 trails in 650,000 acres of Wilderness, General National Forest, and National Grassland lands. PWV's efforts include establishing an extensively trained Trail Crew to address insufficient USFS funding and personnel to clear fallen trees and other trail damage, and to construct new trails. * Weed Crew helps the USFS locate, control, and eradicate noxious weeds. * Kids in Nature Program to support the USFS Kids in the Woods program. * Restoration Program: When wildfires, floods, and wind storms ravage the Canyon Lakes Ranger District's trails and campgrounds, assist the USFS in restoring trails and campgrounds. * Trails for ALL Program to foster safe, fun, and educational connections to the outdoors for people of all abilities. * Leave No Trace Program to provide and facilitate training for PWV members in the teaching of LNT principles and outdoor ethics, so that they may, in turn, teach those concepts to members of the public. The committee's secondary mission is to teach LNT principles and outdoor ethics directly to the public. * Environmental stewardship and public outreach via the activities of other PWV programs, such as Adopt-a-Trail. PWV in 2025 continued to pursue its mission of assisting the United States Forest Service's Canyon Lakes Ranger District programs in managing and protecting the wilderness and backcountry areas. In support of our core effort to patrol trails and engage the public, we contacted more than 9,729 trail users while completing over 1,000 patrols. These contacts allow us to support backcountry users with advice, information, and education on Leave No Trace practices and USFS regulations, and to pursue restoration efforts focused on building bridges, constructing rock walls and steps, and controlling erosion on the trails. We continued our efforts to maintain trails at a high level last year, removing over 2,997 trees and clearing brush and limbs from over 62,100 feet of trail. Furthermore, in 2025, restoration efforts focused on building bridges, constructing rock walls and steps, erosion control on the trails, and installing grade dips and drains. PWV worked 21 days to improve drainage on our trails. We also worked for 21 days with the Rocky Mountain Conservancy's Youth Conservation Corps, building 2 bridges, 4 stepping-stone crossings, and 1,100 feet of rerouted trail. This amounted to 2,643 hours of trail work to restore the trails. In 2025, PWV contacted more than 9,729 backcountry users while completing over 1,084 patrols. Total volunteer hours - 23,180, Total number of patrols/reports - 1,000, Meaningful contacts with trail users - 9,729, Fallen trees removed from trails - 2,997, Feet of trail cleared of brush/limbs - 62,194, Pounds of trash removed - 339, Illegal fire rings removed - 87, Violations addressed or reported - 545, Patrols identifying or pulling weeds - 329, Constructed and repaired - 2 bridges and repaired 7 bridges, 38 check dam/steps,145 feet of rock wall, 51 steps, 15 drains and repaired 40 drains, 15 grade dips, 11 rock cairns, 2 stepping stone crossing, 6,516 feet of trail treads and repaired 70 feet of tread, decommissioned 763 of trail tread, constructed 703 feet of wall, repaired 123 water bars, installed 2 wood signs, repaired 21 wood signs, repaired 1 plastic sign, repaired 3 composite signs, installed 2 laminate signs, and repaired 1 laminate sign. PWV has gained regional and national recognition for its contributions, including the Larimer County Environmental Stewardship Award, the Take Pride in America Award for Non-profit Organizations, and the USFS Volunteer Group Award. PWV has no political agendas. Our single purpose is to protect the US Forest Service's Canyon Lakes Ranger District's Wilderness and backcountry areas through on-trail maintenance, construction, and public education. PWV has a rigorous and comprehensive training program for its recruits and recertifying veteran members. No other organization providing volunteer rangers for the U.S. Forest Service has as many members, provides as many hours on the trail, or does so much without any paid staff. _ A Successful and Different Organization PWV has gained regional and national recognition for its contributions, including the Larimer County Environmental Stewardship Award, the Take Pride in America Award for Non-profit Organizations, and the USFS Volunteer Group Award. PWV has no political or hidden agendas. Our single purpose is to protect the region's Wilderness and backcountry areas through on-trail service and public education. We are not an environmental advocacy group. PWV has a rigorous and comprehensive training program for its recruits and veteran members. No other organization providing volunteer rangers for the U.S. Forest Service has as many members, provides as many hours on the trail, or does so much without any paid staff.

  Expenses $50,865 · Revenue $54,120

• Not applicable see prior.

• Not applicable see prior.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $54,120

  Expenses

  $55,405

  Contributions

  $48,926

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $50,298

  Expenses

  $43,284

  Contributions

  $37,029

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $43,002

  Expenses

  $50,336

  Contributions

  $39,183

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $37,628

  Expenses

  $65,906

  Contributions

  $38,464

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $95,595

  Expenses

  $24,444

  Assets (EOY)

  $305,819

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $49,669

  Expenses

  $22,480

  Assets (EOY)

  $226,410

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $61,848

  Expenses

  $25,305

  Assets (EOY)

  $187,412

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $52,415

  Expenses

  $39,617

  Assets (EOY)

  $150,678

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $34,875

  Expenses

  $26,032

  Assets (EOY)

  $138,292

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $54,617

  Expenses

  $33,882

  Assets (EOY)

  $128,494

• 2015 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $44,285

  Expenses

  $33,430

  Assets (EOY)

  $104,540

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period

1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014

Principal officer

Michael E Corbin

Mailing address

P O Box 271921Fort Collins CO 80527

Website

pwv.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $11,718

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $11,639

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $9,970

  2024 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO

  $6,263

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO

  $5,705

  2023 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• WANDER PROJECT

  $5,514

  2022 · General Support

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