- Revenue 2024
- $1,570,823
- Expenses 2024
- $1,989,800
Program services were 95.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- X11
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 121 S TEJON STREET 5TH FLOOR
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
TO OPERATE EXCLUSIVELY FOR PUBLIC, CHARITABLE, OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES TO BENEFIT THE COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES COMMUNITY AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED BY OPERATIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To operate exclusively for public, charitable, or educational purposes to benefit the Colorado Springs Utilities community.
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THE PROJECT COPE PROGRAM PROVIDES EMERGENCY UTILITY BILL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES. THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH NINE NONPROFIT AGENCIES, THE FOUNDATION PROVIDED ASSISTANCE TO 2431 HOUSEHOLDS TO HELP KEEP THEIR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACTIVE.
Expenses $1,890,452 · Grants $1,762,905
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Tristan Gearhart
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $434,682
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $351,270
- Other
- $83,412
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- not reported + $351,270 related
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported + $50,991 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported + $32,421 related
- Filer's total
- not reported + $434,682 related
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Lisa Barbato
Director
- Total calculated
- $427,455
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $352,191
- Other
- $75,264
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- not reported + $352,191 related
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported + $50,991 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported + $24,273 related
- Filer's total
- not reported + $427,455 related
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Mike Francolino
President
- Total calculated
- $426,953
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $345,208
- Other
- $81,745
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- not reported + $345,208 related
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported + $50,991 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported + $30,754 related
- Filer's total
- not reported + $426,953 related
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Renee Adams
Director
- Total calculated
- $398,865
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $317,091
- Other
- $81,774
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- not reported + $317,091 related
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported + $46,540 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported + $35,234 related
- Filer's total
- not reported + $398,865 related
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Natalie Lovell
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $233,278
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $177,365
- Other
- $55,913
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- not reported + $177,365 related
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported + $26,155 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported + $29,758 related
- Filer's total
- not reported + $233,278 related
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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,570,823
- Expenses
- $1,989,800
- Contributions
- $1,493,406
- Grants paid
- $1,762,905
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,095,981
- Expenses
- $1,174,111
- Contributions
- $1,018,531
- Grants paid
- $1,171,975
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,186,701
- Expenses
- $455,020
- Contributions
- $1,169,727
- Grants paid
- $410,106
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,147,424
- Expenses
- $1,156,595
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,751,625
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,248,291
- Expenses
- $578,960
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,757,532
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $964,666
- Expenses
- $1,123,412
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,093,587
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $681,768
- Expenses
- $1,062,975
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,251,499
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,384,162
- Expenses
- $916,927
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,131,803
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $860,631
- Expenses
- $948,432
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,672,591
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $782,266
- Expenses
- $1,005,179
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,767,347
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $810,850
- Expenses
- $1,010,193
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,979,499
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $931,960
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,176,803
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2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $897,423
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,157,729
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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Colorado Springs Utilities
$1,762,905
2024 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
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Colorado Springs Utilities
$1,100,680
2023 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
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Colorado Springs Utilities
$410,106
2022 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
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$18,470
2023 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
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$14,036
2023 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
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$13,022
2023 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
-
$9,828
2023 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
-
$7,871
2023 Bill assistance for utilities customers.
Grants received
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$52,959
2023 Support the Charitable Purpose of the Organization
-
$40,867
2022 Operations Support
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PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$15,000
2024 HS: HUMAN SERVICES
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PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$12,000
2022 HS: HUMAN SERVICES
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PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$10,000
2025 HS: HUMAN SERVICES
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2022 PROJECT COPE
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2024 X11 SINGLE ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
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2023 HS: HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 X11 SINGLE ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
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2022 X11 SINGLE ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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Colorado Springs Utilities
Sec 115(1) · Public Utilit · CO
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.