Colorado · Public charity
Conservation Colorado Education Fund
We work to turn environmental values into state priorities through educating decision-makers and building community leaders to protect what makes our state unlike any other - our spectacular natural environment.
- $11k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $10k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Conservation Colorado Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $174k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $185k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $225k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $241k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $450k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Energy Efficiency Project | $410,800 | 6 | 4% |
| Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc | $187,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $127,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Western Resource Advocates | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Clean Energy Economy for the Region | $92,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Protect Colorados Recovery | $86,110 | 1 | 4% |
| Colorado Civic Education | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wzi Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagle River Watershed Council | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of the Yampa Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Energy Efficiency Project | $410,800 | 6 | 4% |
| Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc | $187,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $127,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Western Resource Advocates | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Clean Energy Economy for the Region | $92,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Protect Colorados Recovery | $86,110 | 1 | 4% |
| Colorado Civic Education | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wzi Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagle River Watershed Council | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of the Yampa Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Colorado Farm & Food Alliance | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights | $14,300 | 1 | 1% |
| The Archer Group | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Juan Citizens Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Conservation Colorado | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Whitewater | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hilltop Public Solutions | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilderness Workshop | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Americas for the Arts | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Coloradans for Coloradans | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Conservation Colorado Education Fund supplied at peak.
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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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · The Denver Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Gill Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Hopewell Fund · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
Compare Conservation Colorado Education Fund with peer funders
About Conservation Colorado Education Fund
- How much does Conservation Colorado Education Fund give?
- Conservation Colorado Education Fund reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $10,670 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Conservation Colorado Education Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (64%), Public Benefit (25%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Conservation Colorado Education Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southwest Energy Efficiency Project ($411k), Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc ($187k), Sierra Club Foundation ($127k).
- Does Conservation Colorado Education Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Colorado Education Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Western Conservation Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Conservation Colorado Education Fund based?
- Conservation Colorado Education Fund is based in CO.
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