Colorado · Nonprofit
San Juan Citizens Alliance
San Juan Citizens Alliance (Colorado) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,912,845 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($635,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What San Juan Citizens Alliance does
Mission
The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Climate change: San Juan Citizens Alliance pursued retirement of polluting coal facilities in the Four Corners region, and cleaner sources of electricity for Colorado utility customers. In northwest New Mexico, SJCA supported completion of the San Juan Solar renewable energy project as replacement for now-retired coal-fired San Juan Generating Station. SJCA also supported and tracked additional solar development projects, including Foxtail Flats, which is projected to begin construction in 2026, as part of the regions transition to renewable energy. SJCA provided public outreach and education to members of La Plata Electric Association to encourage forward-looking policies to support local, renewable energy sources and supported LPEAs replacement of its long-term power supply contract from Tri-State with a new portfolio of local and renewable energy sources. SJCA also continued tracking abandoned oil and gas wells in New Mexico advocating for companies or the state to clean-up these old leaking wells. SJCA also tracked the proposed expansion of the Navajo Mine and participated in regulatory proceedings related to the proposed acquisition of Public Service Company of New Mexico to…
$619,877 spent$28,402 earned by the program66% of program spendingPublic lands protection: San Juan Citizens Alliance spearheaded public outreach and education to improve conservation management across the San Juan National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands in southwest Colorado. SJCA continued to lead public opposition to the massive proposed Village at Wolf Creek development project, a planned city of 8,000 people atop Wolf Creek Pass that continues to be stalled almost 40 years after originally proposed. SJCA engaged the public to review and comment on development activities including proposed timber sales, oil and gas leases, and forest and recreation planning efforts to ensure the protection of wildlife habitat and quiet recreation uses, with a particular focus on the HD Mountains, the ponderosa pine forests west of Dolores, and the undeveloped alpine valley of Minnie Gulch above Silverton. SJCA also worked with the Forest Service on the Salter timber project to advocate for protection of some of the largest and oldest trees in the forest.
$177,295 spent19% of program spendingWildlife: San Juan Citizens Alliance organized public outreach and education around the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado, and supported the development of conflict reduction strategies between ranchers and wolves to improve coexistence. SJCA also engaged in efforts to advance wolverine reintroduction in Colorado, and advocated for improved management of domestic sheep to increase herds of native bighorn sheep.
$90,880 spent10% of program spendingAnimas River: San Juan Citizens Alliance engaged in the Colorado Dredge and Fill Rulemaking (Regulation 87), working with a statewide coalition to strengthen protections for wetlands and ephemeral streams and to ensure clear permitting requirements for future development projects that may impact water resources. SJCA participated in the Animas River Stakeholder Group in Silverton, worked with the Animas Watershed Partnership to support development of the Animas River watershed plan, and supported the Southwestern Water Conservation District in ongoing water quality data collection efforts.
$52,739 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $940,791.
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 2022 to 2023, from $568k to $889k (+57%).
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.
94% of San Juan Citizens Alliance’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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $145k → $1.0M.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 San Juan Citizens Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
San Juan Citizens Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 San Juan Citizens Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 47% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
59% of San Juan Citizens Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
San Juan Citizens Alliance draws 86% 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. $988k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
San Juan Citizens Alliance's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like San Juan Citizens Alliance
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 San Juan Citizens Alliance: 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 San Juan Citizens Alliance?
- San Juan Citizens Alliance (Colorado) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,912,845 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($635,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Juan Citizens Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,912,845 in grants to San Juan Citizens Alliance, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Juan Citizens Alliance?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Juan Citizens Alliance 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 55 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