Colorado · Nonprofit
A Way Forward Inc
A Way Forward Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,399 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($340,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $286k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $532k
- Net assets
- $60k
What A Way Forward Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to smash barriers to recovery and create more access to comprehensive, evidence-based services focused on substance use and mild to moderate mental health disorders while creating a community of belonging and healing in the st. Vrain valley. A way forward (awf) is a community recovery center offering evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders with structured classes, including an intensive outpatient program, a variety of recovery support groups and individual peer support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024, the organization provided services for 650 individuals. Client contacts totaled 14,839, a 33% increase over 2023. In 2024, awf received funding for and were able to strengthen services to veterans, the spanish speaking community, youth and the newly housed. Services included: a newly funded 12-week intensive outpatient program, running concurrently with a variety of other groups; classes and evidence based services to support many paths to recovery and a healthier lifestyle. The organization offers group classes as well as individual peer support 7 days a week. All services are offered at no charge.service recipients self-reported the following: 97% feel their life is more stable, 100% reported feeling more hopeful, 97% benefited from group support and 100% benefited from the sense of community.
$263,963 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $263,963.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $26k to $108k (+315%).
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.
97% of A Way Forward Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Claudia Archuletta
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $70k → $140k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Way Forward Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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 Way Forward Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 Way Forward Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“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
99% of A Way Forward Inc's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Way Forward Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like A Way Forward 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Way Forward 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 Way Forward Inc?
- A Way Forward Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,399 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($340,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A Way Forward Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $532,399 in grants to A Way Forward Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Way Forward Inc?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Way Forward 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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