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Colorado Energy Foundation

The Colorado Energy Foundation was incorporated in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) supporting organization of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and seeks to amplify existing philanthropic efforts of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and develop new community partnerships through strategic investment.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$128kHuman Services$95kEnvironment$88kYouth Development$74kReligion$51kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$32kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $115,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$217k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Energy Outreach Colorado$25,000
Wee Cycle$15,000
Growing Home$15,000
A Precious Child$15,000
Weld Food Bank$12,500
Emily Griffith Foundation$10,000
Colorado Uplift$7,500
Mile High Youth Corps$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%A Precious Child: $15k → 5%Wee Cycle: $24k → 8%A Precious Child: $15k → 5%Wee Cycle: $18k → 8%A Precious Child: $8k → 5%Wee Cycle: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 5 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$294k
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationReligionFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EO
    ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO
    4× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +186%
  • W
    WEECYCLE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +21%
  • WF
    WELD FOOD BANK
    2× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • GI
    Girls Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • OH
    Oilfield Help Hands Rocky Mtn
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of CO
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Council On Economic Education

Our mission is to empower colorado students to achieve a lifetime of economic understanding and financial freedom. how will we achieve this mission? by providing economic and personal financial education to students through training…

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3
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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6
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
7
Energize Colorado Inc

We foster resiliency in underinvested business communities across colorado by innovatively addressing capital gaps. at energize colorado, we envision a future where we are the go-to destination for business owners seeking comprehensive…

Community Improvement
8
Colorado Women's Employment & Education Inc

Cwee fosters personal and professional transformation for low-income families through confidence building, customized skills training, and career advancement.

Employment
9
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Uplift Inc; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Girls Inc: $40,000 · OtherGirls IncOilfield Help Hands Rocky Mtn: $37,500 · OtherOilfield Help Hands Rocky MtnHabitat for Humanity of CO: $37,500 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of COColorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists: $19,200 · OtherColorado Association of Black Profe…Interfaith Alliance: $10,000 · OtherInterfaith AllianceEmily Griffith Technical Coll: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherUrban Peak: $7,500 · OtherENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $127,500 · Recreation & SportsENERGY OUTREACH COLORADOVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADOWEECYCLE: $56,700 · Human ServicesWEECYCLEA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INCGROWING HOME INC: $40,500 · ReligionWELD FOOD BANK: $31,700 · Food & NutritionEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $7,500 · EducationCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: $12,500 · EnvironmentYEAR ONE INC: $7,500 · Youth Development
Other$166,700Recreation & Sports$165,000Human Services$94,700Religion$40,500Food & Nutrition$31,700Education$17,500Environment$12,500Youth Development$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $127,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEECYCLE: $56,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $40,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $37,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $31,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR ONE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationSchlessman Foundation…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Janus Henderson F…Anschutz Family Found…Gary PhilanthropyMile High United Way …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Mile High United Way Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colorado Energy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorado Energy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Colorado Energy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colorado Energy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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