Colorado · Nonprofit
THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,258 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($63,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $32k
What The Institute for Environmental Solutions does
Mission
The Institute for Environmental Solutions is an independent non-profit organization that delivers scientific solutions to improve our health and environment.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The goal of the IES Tree Project is to improve the urban environment and health through strategic tree planting. To achieve this, we facilitate collaboration among many community groups and individuals to find optimal solutions to urban environmental challenges with trees. Trees can have both positive and negative impacts on our environment and health. Every tree generates oxygen, improves air quality, recycles water, and controls soil erosion. But the wrong tree in the wrong place can reduce air quality, increase energy use in buildings, or die before returning any environmental or social benefit. It is important that communities make smart decisions when investing in trees.
$17,604 spent98% of program spendingIES's Chemical Footprint Project aims to reduce and prevent Contaminants of Emerging Concern, CECs, from entering water and the environment. CECs are unregulated harmful chemicals widely used in personal care and household products that pose a threat to the environment and human health. Many CECs are endocrine disruptors, while others are toxic to wildlife. CECs enter the system from CEC-containing products used at home or in industry. They are not targeted for removal by wastewater treatment plants. We use community-based social marketing to reduce CEC concentrations entering wastewater and reduce human exposure to contaminants. We show adults and children how to make sound, science based decisions to reduce their use of personal care, food, and household products containing CECs.
$450 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,054.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $45k to $32k (−28%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Carol Lyons
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $34k → $53.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS’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
THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 40% · 2019 35% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS draws 82% 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. $53k 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.
Organizations like THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
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
100%
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 THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS: 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 THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS?
- THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,258 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($63,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $218,258 in grants to THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 10 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