Colorado · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC
ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,691 to it, the largest being ROCKY MOUNTAIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ($150,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $564k
- Net assets
- $574k
What Advocates of Lake County Inc does
Mission
Organization's mission or most significant activities the advocates of lake county will assist any victim of crime, violence, or other traumatic event, primarily victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The advocates work for positive social change, seeking to promote a safe and healthy community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In this fiscal year our agency assisted 289 victims of crime, including 233 victims of domestic violence, 3 of child abuse, and 15 of sexual assault. Of those victims served 79 were latina survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. These victims accessed services of crisis counseling, shelter, information and referrals, criminal justice support, financial assistance, legal advocacy, victims compensation and assistance. Our staff assisted 5 victims in filing for civil protective orders. At the alc safehouse we have sheltered 61 adults and children victims of crime. Additionally, staff or volunteers responded to 655 crisis intervention calls. "court advocacy: advocates attend court with victims for support, guidance, and translation for our spanish speaking clients. "referral and information: assisting victims' with information and guidance regarding other services available. These include, but are not limited to, health and human services, legal aid, housing assistance, shelter, mental health agencies, work force and other agencies. "support: translation and assistance with paper work: these include but are not limited to victim impact statements, protection orders, housing…
$725,408 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $725,408.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $743k to $592k (−20%).
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: 2017 73% · 2018 76% · 2019 82% · 2020 79% · 2021 85% · 2022 84% · 2023 81% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Hannah Guilford
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $87k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY 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
ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 24% · 2022 66% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
100% of ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY 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. $116k 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
ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $988k on record.
- Department of Justice$988k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC?
- ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,691 to it, the largest being ROCKY MOUNTAIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ($150,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $563,691 in grants to ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY INC?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES OF LAKE COUNTY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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