Colorado · Nonprofit
A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc
A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,302 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $660k
What A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc does
Mission
The Mission of Aspen House/Aspen Services is to cultivate an environment of success for adults with developmental disabilities and their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A Safe Place in Pagosa Springs (dba Aspen House & Aspen Services) supports adults with developmental disabilities by providing supportive services to help them live and thrive in Pagosa Springs. These supports include individualized employment placement, which provides one-on-one job placement and coaching. Additionally, the Aspen Services Day Habilitation Program is for adults with developmental disabilities and focuses on the quality of our clients lives, as well as their overall level of functioning and independence in the community. All the programs strive to provide recreation, social/communication and physical fitness activities within the local community to enhance self-esteem and independence. The organization has been fundraising for Aspen House, an 8 unit affordable housing complex for adults with developmental disabilities. The project broke ground in 2026.
$204,732 spent$65,793 earned by the program56% of program spendingAs part of the mission of Aspen Services, the organization operates Ps FroYo, a frozen yogurt shop located in Pagosa Springs, CO. The shop emphasizes employment of developmentally disabled adults, clients of Aspen Services or not, to help provide training in effective communication with supervisors, coworkers, and customers; ability to follow directions; ability to complete tasks; and workplace problem-solving skills. The proceeds from Ps FroYo help offset program related expenses of Aspen Services.
$161,484 spent$126,820 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,216.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $402k to $615k (+53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2023 24% · 2024 26% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Patricia Copenhaver
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $6k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc’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
A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
92% of A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc
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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc: 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 A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc?
- A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,302 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $92,302 in grants to A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Safe Place in Pagosa Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing