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350 Colorado Action

350 Colorado Action (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,100 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION ($316,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$11k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$445k
Net assets
$83k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What 350 Colorado Action does

Mission

350 Colorado Action is a public education and welfare organization focused on educating the public and decision-makers about the issue of climate change, and to encourage the transition away from polluting fossil fuels to a clean renewable energy future. We work to protect public health & safety and the environment from the dangers of fossil fuels.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. 350 Colorado Action is a public education and welfare organization focused on educating the public and decision-makers about the issue of climate change, and to encourage the transition away from polluting fossil fuels to a clean renewable energy future. We work to protect public health & safety and the environment from the dangers of fossil fuels.

    $4,933 spentof which $725 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,933.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($134k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2019 Revenue 4 ($5k) Expenses 4 ($6k) Net assets 69 ($1k)2023 Revenue 107 ($146k) Expenses 95 ($128k) Net assets 7818 ($130k)2024 Revenue 8 ($11k) Expenses 43 ($58k) Net assets 5014 ($83k)
2018201920232024
Revenue (8)Expenses (43)Net assets (5014)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $130k to $83k (−36%).

$2k
$1k
$130k
$83k
2018201920232024
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of 350 Colorado Action’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’18
−$508
’19
$18k
’23
−$47k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $50k.

Funder
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total
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$103k
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$20k
funders
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1
2
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From the IRS filings of 350 Colorado Action’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

350 Colorado Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 350 Colorado Action.

71%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

76% of 350 Colorado Action's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

350 Colorado Action's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−416% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−34% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like 350 Colorado Action

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 350 Colorado Action: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds 350 Colorado Action?
350 Colorado Action (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,100 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION ($316,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does 350 Colorado Action have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $445,100 in grants to 350 Colorado Action, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 350 Colorado Action?
WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $316,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 350 Colorado Action find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing