How much does Energy Outreach Colorado give?

Energy Outreach Colorado reported 115 grants totaling $38,638,714 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 112 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Energy Outreach Colorado fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Human Services (21%), Health (10%).

Who are Energy Outreach Colorado's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado Energy Office ($47M), Xcel Energy ($36M), Goodwill of Colorado ($10.0M).

Does Energy Outreach Colorado fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Energy Outreach Colorado?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trailhead Institute, The Colorado Health Foundation, El Pomar Foundation.

Where is Energy Outreach Colorado based?

Energy Outreach Colorado is based in CO.

Energy Outreach Colorado

Energy Outreach Colorado at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Energy Outreach Colorado

ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO (eoc) is an independent, non-profit organization that raises funds to help income-qualified coloradans afford home energy.

$39M

Granted FY2025still arriving

115

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$17M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$81MHuman Services$31MHealth$15MEmployment$10MHousing & Shelter$3.4MCommunity Improvement$2.2MEducation$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.3MOther$0

02FY2025 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $182k
$10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k26 grants · $2.5M
$250k+4 grants · $34M

$21,325

Median grant

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
XCEL ENERGY	$17,225,615
COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE	$10,964,030
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN	$5,028,772
BLACK HILLS ENERGY	$920,143
ATMOS ENERGY	$242,493
NORTHWEST COLORADO COUNCIL OF GOVER	$226,891
GOODWILL OF COLORADO	$223,612
CDHS LEAP	$215,235
COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES	$149,237
UNITED POWER	$108,633
GUNNISON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING AU	$98,232
FAMILY TREE	$90,689
DPS FAMILY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT	$85,965
CITY OF FORT COLLINS	$84,794
CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY	$84,550

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$147M · 170 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

170 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

170

Total granted

$147M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+33%

Still filing today

59%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentReligionOther

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

GO
Goodwill of Colorado
7× · 2019–2025 · $10.0M · revenue +30%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +57%
GV
GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +56%

Funded once

DP
Denver Public Schools
one grant, 2023 · $1.2M
DU
DENVER URBAN MATTERS
one grant, 2017 · $171k
HC
HIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $72k · revenue +148%

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.

Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition

Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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Colorado Rural Electric Association

To enhance and advance the interests of its member electric cooperatives through a united effort.

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Denver Community Ventures

To empower low-income families and individuals towards self-sufficiency and independent living.

Housing & Shelter

Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition

Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Northwest Family Assistance Center

Our mission is to provide emergency and alternative food resources to residents of Northwest Denver in ways that promote respect and dignity.

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Energize Colorado Inc

We foster resiliency in underinvested business communities across colorado by innovatively addressing capital gaps. at energize colorado, we envision a future where we are the go-to destination for business owners seeking comprehensive…

Community Improvement

Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services

Feeding Colorado

The mission of feeding colorado, which represents the five feeding america food banks in the state, is to improve food security in colorado through policy, advocacy, partnership, and education.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center; the most unlike its peers is African American Trade Association. 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

128 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 128 of the 211 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

118/128

Grantees still filing

85/128

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$113,067,507Human Services$19,135,423Employment$10,241,438Community Improvement$2,746,483Housing & Shelter$2,009,157Health$1,152,133Philanthropy$848,281

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Trailhead InstituteCO94.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trailhead Institute · The Colorado Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Trust · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund

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 Energy Outreach Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Energy Outreach Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home