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Colorado Rural Electric Association

Colorado Rural Electric Association (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $174,150 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPORATION ($174,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$174k
Net assets
$2.0M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Colorado Rural Electric Association does

Mission

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

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Expenses are incurred to promote the general welfare of the rural electric cooperatives in Colorado.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 100 ($4.0M) Expenses 105 ($3.9M) Net assets 104 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 99 ($3.9M) Expenses 110 ($4.0M) Net assets 99 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 96 ($3.8M) Expenses 111 ($4.1M) Net assets 88 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 106 ($4.2M) Expenses 118 ($4.3M) Net assets 83 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 110 ($4.4M) Expenses 121 ($4.4M) Net assets 81 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 99 ($3.9M) Expenses 109 ($4.0M) Net assets 77 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 99 ($3.9M) Expenses 106 ($3.9M) Net assets 77 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (106)Net assets (77)

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 $2.2M to $2.5M (+15%).

$2.7M
$2.9M
$2.8M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$284k
’17
$110k
’18
−$127k
’19
−$280k
’20
−$124k
’21
−$77k
’22
−$83k
’23
−$2k
’24
5.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Kent Singer

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3236333635293631
Joined·+11+7+16+1+5+10+7
No longer listed·71013211312
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $16k → $23k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Colorado Rural Electric Association’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.

Where its funders are

Colorado Rural Electric Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’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

Organizations like Colorado Rural Electric Association

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Colorado Electric Educational Insti · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Colorado Rural Electric Association: 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 Colorado Rural Electric Association?
Colorado Rural Electric Association (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $174,150 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPORATION ($174,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Colorado Rural Electric Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $174,150 in grants to Colorado Rural Electric Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Colorado Rural Electric Association?
NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $174,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Colorado Rural Electric Association 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 1 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