Colorado · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,526,920 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($2,012,500). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Conservation Colorado Education Fund does
Mission
We work to turn environmental values into state priorities through educating decision-makers and building community leaders to protect what makes our state unlike any other - our spectacular natural environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educated the public, decision makers, and the media about the importance of addressing environmental challenges and protecting our public lands and water supply to ultimately pass policy that makes colorado a national leader in environmental policy.
$2,031,005 spentof which $22,975 as grants73% of program spendingProvided free leadership development programs that center people's unique perspectives and develop leadership skills, fostering the next generation of environmental leaders.
$749,404 spentof which $19,250 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,780,409.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.5M to $7.2M (+32%).
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.
85% of CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kelly Nordini
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.5M.
20 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. 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
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
61% 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 CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 17% · 2020 19% · 2021 12% · 2022 28% · 2023 15% — 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
46% of CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: 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 CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND?
- CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,526,920 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($2,012,500). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $19,526,920 in grants to CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,012,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND 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 82 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing