Colorado · Nonprofit
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,945,555 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($10,300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Ecosystem Services Market Consortium does
Mission
Esmc is a non-profit that works to compensate farmers and ranchers who improve the environment through their agricultural practices. Our market program reduces greenhouse gases, improves water quality, and increases other ecosystem services to benefit society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (esmc) is a non-profit, member-based organization that recognizes and rewards farmers and ranchers for their environmental services to society. Esmc members represent the spectrum of the agricultural sector supply chain with whom we are scaling sustainable agricultural sector outcomes, including increased soil carbon, reduced net greenhouse gases, and improved water quality and water use conservation. We launched eco-harvest, a voluntary, national ecosystem services market program in may 2022. (continued on sch o) during 2025, we continued to engage agricultural value chain and supply chain partners in market program innovation, testing, and refinement to further build our program. Refinements to protocols, data collection, project development and partnership engagement models proceeded, as did efforts to test and embed advanced tools and technologies into our platform. The results include continued programmatic streamlining and achievement of critical cost-efficiencies to enable scaled program operations. With the generous support of a grant from the foundation for food & agriculture research (ffar) and from many additional funders, members,…
$2,892,698 spent$1,172,532 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,892,698.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $5.7M to $4.5M (−22%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 16% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM’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. 4 of the last 5 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
Ryan Tregaskes
CEO (as of 06/2025)
Board chair
Emily Johannes
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $650k → $11M.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM’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
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 92% · 2023 94% — 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
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ecosystem Services Market Consortium LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM: 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 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM?
- ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,945,555 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($10,300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $11,945,555 in grants to ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM?
- FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $10,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM 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 7 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