About Colorado Youth Corps Association
Our mission is to serve on behalf of Colorado conservation corps that transform lives and communities through service, personal development, and education statewide.
Focus Areas
land conservationwater conservationtrail construction and maintenanceinvasive species removalenergy efficiency/weatherizationyouth workforce developmentveteran employment and trainingenvironmental education
Who They Fund
communities affected by contaminationmunicipalities and local governmentsindustrial site owners/operatorsecosystems and wildlife habitat
About Colorado Youth Corps Association
Colorado Youth Corps Association directs its grantmaking toward Colorado conservation corps that place young people and veterans on environmental remediation work. The recent grants list is dominated by large, repeated awards to corps in Denver, Steamboat Springs, Durango, Grand Junction, Fort Collins, and Greeley, showing a program built around crew-based project funding rather than small one-off awards. Mile High Youth Corps received $3,445,919 in 2025 and $3,145,880 in 2024, while Rocky Mtn Youth Corps received $2,759,453 in 2024 and $2,155,470 in 2025. Conservation Legacy also appears multiple times, including a $2,010,454 award in 2025. The foundation’s mission statement centers on Colorado conservation corps that transform lives and communities through service, personal development, and education statewide. Its active programs show that this work reaches public lands stewardship, energy and water projects, invasive species control, and AmeriCorps-backed placements. Across those efforts, the organization supports corps operations, member engagement, and project delivery for youth and veterans.
What Colorado Youth Corps Association Funds
Environmental remediation is the clearest throughline in the recent grants, with multiple awards supporting corps crews rather than individual projects. Colorado Youth Corps Association gave $1,592,760 to Western Colorado Conservation Corps in 2025 for environmental remediation, and $894,385 to Larimer County Conservation Corps in 2025 for the same purpose. The foundation also backs invasive species and water-resource work through its program portfolio, including a CWCB partnership for youth corps projects that fight invasive plants and protect water resources. Another program area is energy efficiency and weatherization; its active Energy and Water Projects program funds crews serving low-income Coloradans. Public lands stewardship is also part of the mix, with program support for crews working on state parks, wildlife areas, local parks, open spaces, and National Conservation Lands.
How Colorado Youth Corps Association Gives
Recent awards cluster in the upper range of the foundation’s typical grant sizes, with a p25 of $466,179, a median of $1,013,412, and a p75 of $1,670,119. That pattern fits a grantmaker that funds crew-based programs at scale. The same recipient organizations appear in multiple years, including Mile High Youth Corps, Rocky Mtn Youth Corps, Conservation Legacy, Western Colorado Conservation Corps, Larimer County Conservation Corps, and Weld County Youth Conservation Corps. Colorado Youth Corps Association operates through program support, subgrants, and pass-through AmeriCorps-related funding, and several active programs accept unsolicited requests while others are administered through partner RFPs or federal/state channels.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$10.3M
Total Assets
$3.3M
Total Revenue
$10.5M
Total Expenses
$11.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $466K and $1.7M, with a median of $1M.
25th Percentile
$466K
Median
$1M
75th Percentile
$1.7M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
MARGARET TAYLOR
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