Colorado · Public charity
Conservation Colorado
Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. We help them do it, and hold them to it. We work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect the landscapes we share and secure our climate future. And, where communities once burdened by…
- $81k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $75k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Conservation Colorado funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $370k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $87k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.7M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $353k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save Our Neighborhoods | $1,037,564 | 1 | 16% |
| Rocky Mountain Values | $1,020,000 | 1 | 36% |
| Conservation Colorado Victory Fund | $871,356 | 5 | n/a |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Logic Action | $136,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Protect Colorados Recovery | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Conservation Colorado Grassroots Action Fund | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Democracy First Colorado | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Resource Advocates | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Action Fund | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save Our Neighborhoods | $1,037,564 | 1 | 16% |
| Rocky Mountain Values | $1,020,000 | 1 | 36% |
| Conservation Colorado Victory Fund | $871,356 | 5 | n/a |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Logic Action | $136,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Protect Colorados Recovery | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Conservation Colorado Grassroots Action Fund | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Democracy First Colorado | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Resource Advocates | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Action Fund | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voces Unidas de Las Montanas | $40,000 | 1 | 4% |
| New Era Colorado Action Fund | $31,892 | 1 | 8% |
| American Whitewater | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Progressnow Colorado | $27,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Western Colorado Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| League of Oil & Gas Impacted Coloradans | $16,852 | 2 | 5% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keep Denver Strong | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado for All 2023 | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Colorado Communications Network Action | $6,000 | 1 | 6% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Conservation Colorado supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc · Seiu Colorado State Council · Western Conservation Action · Green Advocacy Project
How this is measured
About Conservation Colorado
- How much does Conservation Colorado give?
- Conservation Colorado reported 1 itemized grants totaling $75,000, out of $81,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Conservation Colorado fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Public Benefit (35%), Employment (3%).
- Who are Conservation Colorado's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Save Our Neighborhoods ($1.0M), Rocky Mountain Values ($1.0M), Conservation Colorado Victory Fund ($871k).
- Does Conservation Colorado fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Colorado?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc, Seiu Colorado State Council.
- Where is Conservation Colorado based?
- Conservation Colorado is based in CO.
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