Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education

Analysis

Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education reported income of $742k and spending of $644k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $316k to $742k (+135%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Inc ($742k), Water Genome ($743k) and Rolling Hills Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc ($741k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 24% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $74k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $118k. At year end it held assets of $594k against liabilities of $31k, net assets of $563k. It reported 32 employees.