Colorado · Nonprofit
ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO
ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,723,485 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,537,953). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Energy Outreach Colorado does
Mission
Energy Outreach Colorado (eoc) is an independent, non-profit organization that raises funds to help income-qualified coloradans afford home energy. Since 1989, eoc has delivered energy bill payment assistance, energy efficiency upgrades for affordable housing and non-profit facilities, energy efficiency education, and advocacy on behalf of income- qualified energy consumers. Eoc funds are distributed to vulnerable households and emergency assitance and affordable housing organizations across colorado.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Utility cash assistance grants provide assistance for income-qualified individuals with energy bills through the charitable energy network.
$21,873,982 spentof which $21,363,200 as grants$289,728 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe energy efficiency program's goals are to provide long-term solutions and energy efficiency upgrades in affordable housing to help income- qualified coloradans reduce energy use and lower their bills. Current contracts with xcel energy, atmos energy, black hills energy, colorado natural gas (cng), city and county of denver, holy cross energy, san miguiel power authority (smpa), platte river power authority (prpa), la plata electric, city of gunnison, and gunnison county electric.
$21,013,073 spentof which $437,138 as grants29% of program spendingThe objective of the weatherization assistance for low-income persons (wap) program is to increase the energy efficiency of dwellings owned or occupied by income-qualified persons, reduce the total expenditures on energy, and improve their health and safety. Through funding received from the colorado governor's energy office, Energy Outreach Colorado provides assistance to income-qualified multi-family dwellings for energy efficiency upgrades.
$1,972,156 spent3% of program spendingThe crisis internvention program is funded by the colorado low-income energy assistance program and provides eligible households with emergency furnace repair and replacement services to ensure families have adequate access to heat. The nonprofit energy assistance program (neep) provides long term solutions and energy efficiency upgrades in nonprofit facilities to reduce energy use and lower energy bills. Current funders include the city of denver, state of colorado, and xcel energy; funds are restricted. Advocacy and commission is setup to advocate for the energy needs of low- income colorado residents. Low income energy assistance payments were made to the colorado department of human services to be used in their leap program that provides benefits to low-income individuals to pay energy bills. Energy Outreach Colorado conducts education and outreach programs to the public. Specifically, the nffn/nliec program targes low-income advocacy nationally and through the national fuel funds network (nffn)and the national low income energy consortium (nliec). The objective of the central 70 program is to reduce noice and dust related to the i70 construction project. 251 homes received…
$28,108,945 spentof which $5,858,398 as grants39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $72,968,156.
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 2024 to 2025, from $39M to $51M (+31%).
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: 2017 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 26% · 2020 40% · 2021 51% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% · 2024 15% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Jennifer Gremmert
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $473k → $927k.
21 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
81% 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 ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 40% · 2019 37% · 2020 26% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 25% — 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
56% of ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO'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
61% of ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.2M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ENERGY OUTREACH 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Energy Outreach Colorado Efficiency · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO?
- ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,723,485 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,537,953). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $5,723,485 in grants to ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,953 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENERGY OUTREACH 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 83 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