Colorado · Nonprofit
HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER
HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $720,861 to it, the largest being HIGH PLAINS FOUNDATION ($519,476). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $721k
- Net assets
- $842k
What High Plains Environmental Center does
Mission
To educate communities to become replicable "living laboratories" which demonstrate restorative examples of land-stewardship, native plants, and wildlife habitat.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Numerous educational programs, events and exhibits dedicated to the extensive public engagement in restoring natural habitat & landscaping with native plants to support wildlife & pollinators. Developed & maintained partnerships with the adjacent high plains school and the thompson school district, loveland open space, loveland stormwater, and loveland public works, front range community college, colorado state university, colorado native plant society, colorado avian research & rehabilitation institute (carri), & the poudre learning center in greeley, co.hpec collaborated with the butterfly pavilion, colorado native plant society, csu extension, front range wild ones, denver botanic gardens, audubon society, poudre learning center, front range community college, thompson school district, volunteers for outdoor colorado, wildlands restoration volunteers, colorado avian research & rehabilitation institute (carri), city of loveland public works, city of loveland stormwater, & centerra metro district.hpec is currently planning for development of phase two of their visitor center, the habitat factory, a working greenhouse and classroom that will highlight the relationship between…
$1,051,650 spent$906,759 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,051,650.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $839k (−16%).
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.
14% of HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
James E Tolstrup
Executive director
Board chair
Greg George
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $54k → $90k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL 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
HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL 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. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL 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
100% 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
- High Plains Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER?
- HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $720,861 to it, the largest being HIGH PLAINS FOUNDATION ($519,476). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $720,861 in grants to HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER?
- HIGH PLAINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $519,476 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH PLAINS ENVIRONMENTAL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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