Colorado · Nonprofit
CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION
CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,258,602 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($389,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $426k
What Clean Energy Economy for the Region does
Mission
Accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy, increase energy independence, and reduce our contribution to climate change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide programs to diversify the economy through household, school, and local government energy efficiency, energy management, clean mobility and clean energy. Provide educational workshops, events and programs. Conduct energy inventories. Provide grants to replace diesel equipment. Organize program to encourage biking, walking, transit use. Conduct market research and organize educational events on geothermal energy, support advancement of geothermal energy.
$1,145,450 spentof which $26,843 as grants$960,333 earned by the program63% of program spendingDistributes rebates to help households, businesses, organizations and local governments increase energy efficiency, save on energy costs, adopt new technologies, or save water through programs funded by grants from or contracts with state government agencies, local utilities, and local governments. Cleer distributed 98 rebates in 2025.
$679,768 spentof which $679,768 as grants$679,768 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,825,218.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $503k to $1.5M (+204%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Nancy Genova
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $84k → $192k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION’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
CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 77% · 2019 51% · 2020 68% · 2021 46% · 2022 39% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION has grown faster than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $516k on record.
- Department of Energy$516k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION?
- CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,258,602 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($389,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,258,602 in grants to CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $389,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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