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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$89kHuman Services$74kRecreation & Sports$72kYouth Development$39kPhilanthropy$37kInternational$34kFood & Nutrition$30kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $213,075, the rows itemized in this filing. The $548,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $335,075 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$23,500
CCV ROTARY CLUB OF PARKER FOUNDATION$19,500
DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
PARKER TASK FORCE$11,500
PARKER SENIOR CENTER INC$11,125
HELP AND HOPE CENTER$10,800
ELBERT COUNTY FAIR BOARD$10,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY GOVERNMENT$10,000
SECOR$9,000
CASTLE ROCK ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FND$9,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC$9,000
CHEROKEE RANCH AND CASTLE FOUNDATION$8,500
STRASBURG METRO PARKS & REC$8,275
CASTLE ROCK CHAMBER$8,100
THE ASPEN EFFECT$8,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 3%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LIFEBRIDGE INC: $8k → 8%PARKER SENIOR CENTER INC: $11k → 3%PARKER SENIOR CENTER INC: $8k → 3%PARKER SENIOR CENTER INC: $6k → 3%WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $8k → 3%THE ASPEN EFFECT: $12k → 3%HELP AND HOPE CENTER: $12k → 3%HELP AND HOPE CENTER: $11k → 3%THE ASPEN EFFECT: $10k → 3%THE ASPEN EFFECT: $8k → 3%PARKER TASK FORCE: $12k → 3%PARKER TASK FORCE: $10k → 3%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$478k · 17 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$478k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DC
    DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +18%
  • EO
    ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +19%
  • DC
    DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TO
    Town of Parker
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • CL
    CONIFER LOBOS UNIFIED BOOSTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -35%
  • PT
    Parker Task Force for Human Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +34%
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
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Castle Rock Pride
Civil Rights
3
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
4
Denver Kiwanis Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Arapahoe County Bar Foundation
Education
6
UpRoot Colorado

UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…

Food & Nutrition
7
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.

Environment
8
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
9
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
10
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
12
Pikes Peak Athletic Foundation
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Castle Rock Community Inter Church Task Force; the most unlike its peers is Conifer Lobos Unified Boosters. 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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,300 · PhilanthropyDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCAT…Douglas County Community Foundation: $52,000 · PhilanthropyDouglas County Commun…DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATIONTown of Parker: $14,000 · OtherTown of ParkerParker Task Force for Human Services: $10,500 · OtherELBERT COUNTY FAIR BOARD: $10,000 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherSTRASBURG METRO PARKS & REC: $8,275 · OtherCASTLE ROCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8,100 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $23,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INCTHE ARAPAHOE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK AUCTION: $22,300 · OtherTHE ARAPAHOE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK AU…SECOR: $22,000 · OtherSECORCherokee Ranch & Castle: $17,000 · OtherCherokee Ranch & CastleTRI ARTS PROJECT: $15,000 · OtherTRI ARTS PROJECT+5 more: $30,225 · Other+5 morePARKER SENIOR CENTER: $46,584 · Human ServicesPARKER SENIOR CENTE…The Aspen Effect Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Aspen Effect In…CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE: $22,325 · Human ServicesCASTLE ROCK COMMUNI…LifeBridge: $7,885 · Human ServicesLifeBridgeWELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $7,500 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING COMMUNIT…CHERRY CREEK VALLEY ROTARY CLUB OF PARKER FOUNDATION: $36,500 · EducationCHERRY CREE…OUTDOOR LAB FOUNDATION: $18,775 · EducationOUTDOOR LAB…Colorado Agricultural Leadership Foundation Inc: $13,250 · EducationColorado Ag…ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $33,000 · Recreation & SportsCONIFER LOBOS UNIFIED BOOSTERS: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $39,000 · HealthCommunity Coalition for Families and Children: $5,950 · HealthROTARY CLUB OF PARKER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCASTLE ROCK SENIOR CENTER INC: $16,950 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$122,300Other$222,400Human Services$114,294Education$68,525Recreation & Sports$45,500Health$44,950Community Improvement$36,950

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDouglas County Community Foundation: $52,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPARKER SENIOR CENTER: $46,584 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $39,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHERRY CREEK VALLEY ROTARY CLUB OF PARKER FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 3y, 49% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Aspen Effect Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE: $22,325 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARAPAHOE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK AUCTION: $22,300 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSECOR: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF PARKER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetOUTDOOR LAB FOUNDATION: $18,775 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCherokee Ranch & Castle: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASTLE ROCK SENIOR CENTER INC: $16,950 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTRI ARTS PROJECT: $15,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetColorado Agricultural Leadership Foundation Inc: $13,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCONIFER LOBOS UNIFIED BOOSTERS: $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetParker Task Force for Human Services: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLifeBridge: $7,885 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP THE NEEDY DBA HTN - HOPE LIVES HERE: $6,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Families and Children: $5,950 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Denver FoundationWestern Union Foundat…Douglas County Commun…Libertygives Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationGeorge and Louise Tho…The Vance R and Colle…Portercare Adventist …The Janus Henderson F…El Pomar FoundationLumen Clarke M Willia…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO28.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Core Electric Cooperative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Core Electric Cooperative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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