Colorado · Public charity
Core Electric Cooperative
The following mission statement guides the cooperative in fulfilling its tax exempt purpose of providing quality and reliable electric service to our member-consumers: improving lives and communities through choice and innovation.
- $548k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $213k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 20
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Core Electric Cooperative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $198k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $194k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $211k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas County Educational Foundation | $70,300 | 3 | 1% |
| Parker Senior Center | $46,584 | 3 | 4% |
| Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation | $39,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cherry Creek Valley Rotary Club of Parker Foundation | $36,500 | 3 | 49% |
| Energy Outreach Colorado | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Douglas County Fair Foundation | $32,000 | 2 | 4% |
| The Aspen Effect Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc | $23,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force | $22,325 | 2 | 0% |
| The Arapahoe County Youth Livestock Auction | $22,300 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 32 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Core Electric Cooperative supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · George and Louise Thornton Charitable Foundation · The Vance R and Colleen H Andrus Family Foundation Aka the Indigo Oak Fund · Portercare Adventist Health System · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation
How this is measured
About Core Electric Cooperative
- How much does Core Electric Cooperative give?
- Core Electric Cooperative reported 22 itemized grants totaling $213,075, out of $548,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 20 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Core Electric Cooperative fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Human Services (17%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
- Who are Core Electric Cooperative's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Douglas County Educational Foundation ($70k), Parker Senior Center ($47k), Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ($39k).
- Does Core Electric Cooperative fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Core Electric Cooperative?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Western Union Foundation.
- Where is Core Electric Cooperative based?
- Core Electric Cooperative is based in CO.
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