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COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$57k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200
Net assets
$2k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Community for Sustainable Energy does

Mission

Education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Solar on Poudre School District Schools. Knocked on over 6,000 doors to raise public awareness of solar on schools potential to save tax payer money, reduce pollution, and educate students about solar industry and jobs. Generated 350 emails to the school board and 800 signatures of support. In response, Poudre School District announced plans for solar at three schools to be installed in the summer of 2026.

    $18,851 spent
    34% of program spending
  2. Raised public awareness of Virtual Power Plant and Renewable Energy Co-op potential for Fort Collins. Knocked on over 12,000 doors to raise awareness of potential and City failure to achieve. Generated 1000 emails and 1600 signatures to City Council.

    $37,326 spent
    66% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,177.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($34k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2022 Revenue 169 ($100k) Expenses 274 ($94k) Net assets 178 ($13k)2023 Revenue 176 ($104k) Expenses 294 ($101k) Net assets 244 ($18k)2024 Revenue 121 ($72k) Expenses 246 ($84k) Net assets 71 ($5k)2025 Revenue 96 ($57k) Expenses 173 ($60k) Net assets 30 ($2k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (96)Expenses (173)Net assets (30)

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 $18k to $5k (−71%).

$7k
$13k
$18k
$5k
$2k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’21
$6k
’22
$3k
’23
−$13k
’24
−$3k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY’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

100% of COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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 COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

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.

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: 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 COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY?
COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200 in grants to COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY?
Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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