Colorado · Nonprofit
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,001,530 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,144,675). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc does
Mission
To create avenues to stable housing for our community's homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The boulder shelter for the homeless provides housing, street outreach, overnight shelter, meals, and other supportive services to adults experiencing homelessness in boulder county, colorado. During fiscal year 2024, the shelter provided 59,900 bed nights and served 121,353 meals to 1,558 adults at its overnight shelter facility. Further, the shelter supported an additional 190 housed adults through our permanent supportive housing program and helped 120 clients exit or avoid homelessness through other means, including but not limited to: subsidized housing, market rate housing, family or friend reunification and rental deposit, or other financial assistance.
$6,021,748 spent$647,949 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,021,748.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $17M (+37%).
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 29% · 2018 44% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 54% · 2022 52% · 2023 41% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $246k → $786k.
23 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
80% 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 BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 27% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% — 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
40% of BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
75% of BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS 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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Caminos a Casa LLC · disregarded
- Rp 2003 LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC?
- BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,001,530 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,144,675). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $5,001,530 in grants to BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,144,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS 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.
Play a game about who funds Boulder Shelter for the Homeless →
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 98 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