Colorado · Nonprofit
ADAMS PURPOSE
ADAMS PURPOSE (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,277 to it, the largest being Caring for Denver Foundation ($883,974). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ADAMS PURPOSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Chinook Fund Incshared funderslocal
- Adams County Community Foundation Incportfolio match
- Robert C Hoffman Tw Charitableportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
31% of ADAMS PURPOSE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $519k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ADAMS PURPOSE’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
ADAMS PURPOSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ADAMS PURPOSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
95% of ADAMS PURPOSE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Chinook Fund Incshared funderslocalCO · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 68 organizations near you
- Adams County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert C Hoffman Tw Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Krasberg Mason Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lassor and Fanny Agoos Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hesed Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robb & Elizabeth Tyler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William L & Doris E Niemann Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McMillan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lichtenheld Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ADAMS PURPOSE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADAMS PURPOSE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ADAMS PURPOSE?
- ADAMS PURPOSE (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,277 to it, the largest being Caring for Denver Foundation ($883,974). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAMS PURPOSE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,485,277 in grants to ADAMS PURPOSE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMS PURPOSE?
- Caring for Denver Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $883,974 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMS PURPOSE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing