Colorado · Nonprofit
Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence
Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,348 to it, the largest being T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION ($98,432). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence does
Mission
To provide community resources and support services to victims, survivors and families affected by domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence (BTSADV) provides education and outreach through social media, a crisis helpline and various other methods. Survivors in need are served by trained advocates that provide support and care anonymously through Facebook or the helpline. BTSADV offers education and outreach to youth, health care professionals, military and law enforcement and social workers; providing information on the complete scope of domestic violence.
$181,848 spent92% of program spendingScholarships through Break the Silence against Domestic Violence (BTSADV) are made in honor of individuals that lost their lives to domestic violence. Scholarship recipients must be impacted by doemstic violence to be eligible to receive a scholarship.
$5,500 spentof which $5,500 as grants3% of program spendingBreak the Silence Against Domestic Violence (BTSADV) hosts retreats to serve victims, survivors and their families. The retreats promote healing, personal development and emphasize the importance of self-care strategies. They create a peer-group environment that encourages growth through accountability.
$10,630 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $197,978.
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 $259k to $102k (−60%).
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.
100% of Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $27k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence’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
Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
62% 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 Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 48% · 2020 98% · 2021 92% · 2022 76% · 2023 97% — 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
13% of Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
61% of Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence'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 $141k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- Department of Defense$19k
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 Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence
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.
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 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence: 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 Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence?
- Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,348 to it, the largest being T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION ($98,432). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $356,348 in grants to Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence?
- T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $98,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence 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 15 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