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La Plata Electric Association Inc

To provide our members with safe, reliable electricity at the lowest reasonable cost while being environmentally responsible.

$293k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$445kPhilanthropy$83kHealth$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$20kEnvironment$19kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $51,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $293,148 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $241,398 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$293M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Upper San Juan Library District$25,000
DURANGO SCHOOL DISTRICT 9R$21,000
FRIENDS OF THE IGNACIO LIBRARY$5,750
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Rise Above Violence: $12k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 78% of La Plata Electric Association Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 25%.

La Plata Electric Association Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
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
Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc

The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…

Arts & Culture
2
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…

Environment
3
Peak Health Alliance

Peak health alliance is organized for the purpose of arranging for more cost-effective health insurance and health insurance administrative services for employers with a physical presence in rural colorado and their employees and…

Health
4
Mi Casa Resource Center

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

Human Services
5
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
6
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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7
Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

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8
La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal
9
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
11
Homesfund

The homesfund seeks to lessen the burdens of government in la plata county, colorado by supporting the creation and provision of affordable housing to lower income households in la plata and surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
12
La Plata Economic Development Alliance

The Alliances mission is to create a vibrant and resilient economy through the recruitment, retainment, and growth of business to preserve our quality of life. This mission is achieved by workforce development, enabling business capacity,…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durango Adult Education Center; the most unlike its peers is Disabled American Veterans 48 Silver San Juan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA PLATA ELECTRIC ROUND UP FOUNDATION: $191,782 · EducationLA PLATA ELECTRIC ROUND UP FOUNDATIONTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPAGOSA PEAK OPEN SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationPAGOSA PEAK OPEN SCHOOL+1 more: $6,100 · EducationUpper San Juan Library District: $25,000 · OtherUpper San Juan Library Dist…Durango 9-R: $21,000 · OtherDurango 9-RMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $19,920 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KI…FORT LEWIS MESA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $17,500 · OtherFORT LEWIS MESA FIRE PROTEC…JUSTICE MINISTRIES OF PAGOSA INC: $12,295 · OtherJUSTICE MINISTRIES OF PAGOS…UPPER SAN JUAN HEATH SERVICE DISTRI: $10,000 · OtherUPPER SAN JUAN HEATH SERVIC…Sacred Heart Church: $10,000 · OtherSacred Heart ChurchArchuleta School District: $10,000 · OtherArchuleta School DistrictARCHULETA COUNTY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherARCHULETA COUNTY EDUCATION …FORT LEWIS COLLEGE: $6,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $6,500 · OtherDisabled American Veterans 48 Silver San Juan: $6,225 · OtherARCHULETA COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $12,000 · OtherARCHULETA COUNTY VICTIM ASS…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $8,468 · Other+1 more: $5,750 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…TEAM UP: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTEAM UPANIMAS ALANO CLUB: $15,000 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLocal First Foundation: $8,000 · HealthLa Plata County Historical Society: $20,000 · Arts & Culturei AM Music Inc: $5,217 · Arts & CultureHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterSouthwest Center for Independence Inc: $6,225 · Housing & ShelterFour Corners Office for Resource Eff: $12,520 · Environment
Education$372,882Other$181,158Philanthropy$107,500Health$33,000Arts & Culture$25,217Housing & Shelter$13,725Environment$12,520

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA PLATA ELECTRIC ROUND UP FOUNDATION: $191,782 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO: $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLa Plata County Historical Society: $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $19,920 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAS ALANO CLUB: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFour Corners Office for Resource Eff: $12,520 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetARCHULETA COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHULETA COUNTY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $8,468 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM UP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDisabled American Veterans 48 Silver San Juan: $6,225 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSouthwest Center for Independence Inc: $6,225 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $6,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgeti AM Music Inc: $5,217 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

El Pomar FoundationBallantine Family FundThoren Family Charita…Colorado Gives Founda…Team UpThe Colorado Health F…Rocky Mountain Health…Community Foundation …The Moniker FoundationWestmeath FoundationThe Erteszek Foundati…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…
El Pomar FoundationCO32.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Team Up · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · The Moniker Foundation · Westmeath Foundation · The Erteszek Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell 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 La Plata Electric Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Plata Electric Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $107k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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