Colorado · Nonprofit
DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO
DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,567 to it, the largest being WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ($65,217). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Drive Clean Colorado does
Mission
Drive Clean Colorado is a non-profit coalition working collaboratively with its members to accelerate the equitable adoption of clean transportation in the state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Colorado recharge program - the colorado energy office recharge colorado program works to advance the adoption of electric vehicles (evs) and installation of charging infrastructure across the state. Drive Clean Colorado helps consumers, local governments, workplaces, and multiunit housing developments identify monetary savings, grant opportunities, and other advantages related to deploying evs and charging infrastructure.
$498,793 spent$19,165 earned by the program50% of program spendingDoe clean cities and communities program - as partners with doe's vehicle technologies office (vto), Drive Clean Colorado deploys affordable, efficient, and clean transportation fuels; energy-efficient mobility systems; and other fuel-saving technologies and practices. Since Drive Clean Colorado's inception in 1993 (over 30 years), Drive Clean Colorado's activities have significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions and achieved a cumulative impact on energy use. Drive Clean Colorado has created a compounding impact statewide that advances u.s. Energy resilience and reduces vehicle emissions while supporting regional economic development and job growth.
$349,155 spent35% of program spendingOther programs - Drive Clean Colorado works on other projects to deploy affordable, efficient, and clean transportation fuels. Drive Clean Colorado works with various fleets to deploy fully electric, propane, and other alternate fuel technologies to reduce their carbon footprint in their communities. Drive Clean Colorado actively collaborates with communities, first responders, and businesses to provide workplace charging for evs and workforce development for not only evs but for charging infrastructure.
$149,638 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $997,586.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $142k to $258k (+82%).
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: 2023 61% · 2024 83% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $45k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO’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
DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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 DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$3.3M
- Department of Energy$960k
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 DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO: 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 DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO?
- DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,567 to it, the largest being WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ($65,217). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $84,567 in grants to DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO?
- WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $65,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRIVE CLEAN COLORADO 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 2019–2025), 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