Colorado · Nonprofit
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,834,045 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,370,783). 114 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 182
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $83M
What Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc does
Mission
To provide club members with a safe, supportive, fun, and enriching environment that inspires and empowers them to achieve their greatest potential. Bgcmd accomplishes this mission with a foundational social- emotional learning approach that is used to deliver three primary programs: (1) character & leadership, (2) academic success, and (3) healthy lifestyles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Character and leadership: developing good character and demonstrating leadership skills are critical for young people to succeed in school and in life. Bgcmds character and leadership programs challenge kids to be community-minded and empower them through opportunities to affect change by working together. Club members have the opportunity to develop leadership skills in many ways, such as by serving as a peer mentor or committee officer, working with adults in the community, and giving back to their community. Bgcmd members organize and carry out hundreds of projects to lend a hand and make a difference in their schools, clubs, and neighborhoods each year. Clubs teach young people how to roll up their sleeves, dig in, and become active participants in their community. This civic engagement works. Club members consistently demonstrate positive, productive coping techniques and high levels of responsibility.
$4,799,451 spentof which $53,211 as grants$181,536 earned by the program27% of program spendingAcademic success: education and career development enable youth to become proficient in basic educational disciplines, apply learning to everyday situations, and learn skills to achieve success in career or college after high school graduation. Bgcmd staff use all program areas to create opportunities for high-yield learning activities, including reading and literacy, writing activities, math, discussions with knowledgeable adults and professionals, helping others, homework support, tutoring, and games that develop cognitive skills. Educationally enriching activities in every area of the club from the art room, to the gym, to the tech lab focus on deliberate skills-building to complement club members traditional academic instruction and spark young peoples passions. Bgcmd also emphasizes parental/caregiver involvement and collaboration between staff and school professionals as critical factors in creating the best out-of-school time learning environment possible.
$5,658,503 spentof which $84,072 as grants$3,155,924 earned by the program32% of program spendingHealthy lifestyles: bgcmd focuses on physical and mental health and life skills programming for all bgcmd members by helping young people make informed decisions about their health and social lives and how those decisions can affect their futures. Programs include social-emotional learning groups, individual mental health support, risky behaviors prevention, reproductive health, positive decision making, healthy habits, exercise and sports teams, nutrition, and conflict resolution. Outdoor education programming exposes club members to the resources available to them in natural environments through experiential learning activities. Activities such as rock climbing, snowboarding, skiing, snowshoeing, ice-skating, camping, geocaching, fishing, mountain biking, rafting, and hands-on educational experiences heighten participants awareness of the outdoors and the resources available to them - not only in their club neighborhoods, but in the great colorado wilderness.
$7,211,590 spentof which $53,211 as grants41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,669,544.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $47M to $58M (+23%).
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 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 11% · 2021 19% · 2022 12% · 2023 15% · 2024 22% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Erin Porteous
CEO
Board chair
Valeri Pappas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 84 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $6.0M.
33 of 182 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 182 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
76% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 21% · 2019 30% · 2020 32% · 2021 68% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% — 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
54% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER 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. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.
Government funding BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Education$1.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$626k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$225k
- Department of Agriculture$99k
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 1 related entity
- River Bend Fund LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC?
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,834,045 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,370,783). 114 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC have?
- IRS filings report 182 organizations giving $35,834,045 in grants to BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC, 114 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,370,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 182 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