Colorado · Nonprofit
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary (Colorado) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,262,521 to it, the largest being The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation ($1,350,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary does
Mission
Believing that when one person serves the whole family serves, Project Sanctuary takes a human-centered, solution-based approach to helping military families heal and move forward in life. Through innovative long-term programming focused on connectedness, we restore hope and empower families to recover and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Therapeutic Retreat Program:Project Sanctuarys therapeutic retreat program offers military families a way to recover, reconnect and build their capacity to support one another through recreation therapy and classes focused on communication skills, navigating life with Post Traumatic Stress and understanding the financial needs of your family. This results-driven program is run by culturally competent professionals, licensed counselors, Certified Therapeutic Recreational Specialists and supported by volunteers, many of whom have experienced the program themselves. The six-day experience includes Relationship Reset, Post Traumatic Stress, and financial awareness workshops, one-on-one time with a financial planner and / or counselors if desired, and age-appropriate youth / teen activities that mirror the adults curriculum. In FY25, 142 military families comprised of more than 481 people were supported at 17 therapeutic retreats.
$1,429,674 spent99% of program spendingFamily Support Program:Project Sanctuarys Family Support program, led by a licensed clinical social worker includes individualized case management support beginning the minute families reach out for help and continues as they return home from their therapeutic retreat experience to implement the tools they learned. Families can reach out at any time when needs arise for resource referrals, emergency financial assistance, or added support to navigate challenges they are experiencing. Each couple/family has a personalized level of support based on their own specific needs. Our team works with vetted experts both nationally and locally to connect families with best-fit resources. The top most requested needs include mental health / overall wellness, financial challenges, caregiver support, marriage / family counseling and veteran benefits. In FY25, 166 cases were supported by the Project Sanctuary Family Support team.
$18,854 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,448,528.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.8M to $3.1M (+73%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Heather Ehle-Ray
CEO
Board chair
Dr Jasmine Townsend
Programs Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $360k → $1.8M.
12 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 funders by total. 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 Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 31% · 2019 77% · 2020 63% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: 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 Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary?
- A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary (Colorado) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,262,521 to it, the largest being The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation ($1,350,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $6,262,521 in grants to A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary?
- The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 84 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing