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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,222,216
Total expenses
$2,311,667
Contributions and grants received
$2,222,216
Grants paid
$1,500,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$163,495
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$163,495
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,282,213
Management and general expenses
$29,454
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,282,213

Program services were 98.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,222,216

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,500,000 · program services $1,500,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $9,600 · program services $9,600

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $139,818 · program services $111,854 · management and general $27,964

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,250 · management and general $1,250

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $40,000 · program services $40,000

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $620,759 · program services $620,759

  • 24a · Other expenses: BANK FEES

    total $240 · management and general $240

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $252,946 · end of year $163,495

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $252,946 · end of year $163,495

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT RESPONSIBLE FRACKING PRACTICES AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND URGING VOTERS TO REJECT STATE WIDE BALLOT INITIATIVES BANNING ENEGRY DEVELOPMENT AND TO SUPPORT INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.

  • THE ORGANIZATION CONDUCTED AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN SUPPORTING BALLOT INITIATIVES THAT SUPPORT RESPONSIBLE OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT AND OPPOSED INITIATIVES THAT BANNED OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $2,282,213 · Grants $1,500,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • JOE MILCZEWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE KENNEDY

    DEPUTY TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART VII SECTION A LINE 5
KATIE KENNEDY IS A CONSULTANT AT STRATEGIC COMPLIANCE, A COMPLIANCE CONSULTING FIRM THAT PROVIDED CONSULTING SERVICES TO PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIROMENT AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE. KATIE EARNED COMPENSATION FOR THE AMOUNT OF $9,600 FROM THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY STRATEGIC COMPLIANCE TO PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIROMENT AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202543219349311929

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