Colorado · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,810,430 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($3,350,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in public education within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. The corporation may engage in public interest research, policy development, analysis, public education, and litigation on issues affecting the public interest and protection of the environment and people of the united states of america, including, but not limited to, the quality of america's air, water, and land. The corporation is not organized for gain or individual profit and it shall be operated exclusively for educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clean energy: promoting solutions that will help our country to go fossil fuel free, promote carbon-free transportation, reduce power plant pollution, preserve tropical forests and more. We are also working to reduce energy waste, convince companies that own and operate buildings with big, flat, sunny roofs to use them to generate electricity from the sun, build public support for and win policies that will help america run on renewable energy.
$2,025,085 spentof which $1,031,009 as grants$26,276 earned by the program46% of program spendingConservation:working to protect our public lands from exploitation and development, save america's remaining wildlife, and defend our oceans from drilling, plastic pollution and other threats.
$2,001,291 spentof which $1,210,383 as grants45% of program spendingClean water and air:protecting the water we drink and the air we breathe by holding polluters accountable, strengthening state and federal protections, networking with local clean water champions, and more.
$421,955 spentof which $196,473 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,448,331.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9.3M to $12M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Wendy Wendlandt
Chair/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.6M.
16 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $455k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Environment California Research and Policy Center). These are real filings, and they are not money ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
80% 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 ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 76% · 2019 47% · 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 33% — 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 ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M 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
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC 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 ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc · exempt
- Center for Public Interest Research Inc · exempt
- Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc · exempt
- Environment California Research and Policy Center Inc · exempt
- Environment Illinois Research and Policy Center Nfp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: 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 ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC?
- ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,810,430 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($3,350,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $17,810,430 in grants to ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $3,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC 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 68 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