Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,000 to it, the largest being PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ($1,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development does
Mission
Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (cred) was created to educate the public on the safe, environmentally responsible energy development practices of the oil and natural gas industry in colorado.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The primary activity of the organization is to conduct a public awareness and education campaign at informing the general public about the energy, economic and environmental benefits of safe and responsible oil and natural gas development in colorado.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
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 2023 to 2024, from $139k to $2.5M (+1707%).
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.
100% of COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (26% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Joe Milczewski
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT’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
COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.
“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
94% of COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
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.
Against its field
COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 149 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
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.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: 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 COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT?
- COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,000 to it, the largest being PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ($1,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,600,000 in grants to COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT?
- PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADANS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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