Colorado · Nonprofit
ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER
ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,899,406 to it, the largest being NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE D/B/A NEXT50 ($667,455). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Energy Resource Center does
Mission
Weatherization programs - to provide energy conservation services and essential energy conservation related repairs for low and moderate income households, and to provide energy conservation education to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Weatherization programs - provided energy conservation services and essential energy conservation related repairs for low to moderate income households, and provided energy conservation education to the community. In addition, the corporation provided weatherization and combustion appliance repair to other customers in order to enhance energy conservation programs.
$18,004,925 spent$354,268 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,004,925.
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 $3.4M to $6.5M (+91%).
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 64% · 2018 67% · 2019 70% · 2020 74% · 2021 68% · 2022 76% · 2023 83% · 2024 82% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Marcus Redden
CEO
Board chair
Cory Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $88k → $47k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 RESOURCE CENTER’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
ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 20% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 RESOURCE CENTER has grown faster than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Buy Sell Impact · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER: 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 ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER?
- ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,899,406 to it, the largest being NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE D/B/A NEXT50 ($667,455). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,899,406 in grants to ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER?
- NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE D/B/A NEXT50 is the largest funder on record, with $667,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENERGY RESOURCE CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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