Colorado · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,664 to it, the largest being PARK FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Environmental Action Research Center Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is to engage in activities, including public education, research, issues advocacy, and other communications and activities to promote pro-environment ideas and policies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Researching & influencing public policy: Staff engage in non-legislative activities including research, education, and legal and policy development on the following issues: endangered species, climate change, energy policy, transportation, clean water, safe and sustainable ocean management, clean air, solid waste, toxic substances and waste, taxes and fiscal policy, international trade and treaties.
$35,384 spentof which $35,000 as grants70% of program spendingPublic education and outreach: recruiting volunteers, distributing educational literature, and conducting survey and discussing the following issues with the public: endangered species, climate change, energy policy, transportation, clean water, safe and sustainable ocean management, clean air, solid waste, toxic substances and waste, taxes and fiscal policy, international trade and treaties.
$15,165 spentof which $15,000 as grants30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,549.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $30k to $56k (+86%).
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.
99% of ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $42k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC’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
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 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
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH 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.
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC?
- ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,664 to it, the largest being PARK FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $116,664 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC?
- PARK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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