· Public charity
Community Office for Resource Efficiency
Core has been helping the roaring fork valley save energy and cut carbon emissions since 1994.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF SNOWMASS VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| THE FARM COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| ASPEN SKIING COMPANY | $40,000 |
| TOWN OF BASALT | $32,000 |
| STOTTS MILL | $25,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $25,000 |
| ASPEN MOUNTAIN RESIDENCES | $25,000 |
| MISS STEPHANIES HOUSE LLC | $22,500 |
| COTTLE CARR AND YAW ARCHITECTS | $20,000 |
| AJAX MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATES | $14,932 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN PERMACULTURE INST5× · 2019–2023 · $373k · revenue +73% · 65% of their budget
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK2× · 2019–2020 · $157k · revenue +28%
- TFThe Farm Collaborative2× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- SBST BENEDICT'S MONASTERYone grant, 2018 · $78k
- CMCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $75k
- APASPEN PITKIN EMPLOYEE HOUSING INCone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -41%
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.
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.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
To enhance and advance the interests of its member electric cooperatives through a united effort.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
To provide affordable housing and to promote the wise and sustainable use of the earth's resources.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Education Preschool Through Eight Grade
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 111 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN PERMACULTURE INST ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK ↗
- Who funds The Farm Collaborative ↗
- Who funds ASPEN PITKIN EMPLOYEE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARK ROSS MONTESSORI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Cross Electric Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · Brady Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Our Part co Marsha Soffer · Nm Morris Family Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · Rose Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Office for Resource Efficiency funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Office for Resource Efficiency. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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