Colorado · Nonprofit
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,610,232 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($351,400). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $366k
What Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc does
Mission
At Breakthrough, our mission is to inspire positive lifelong transformation and empower people in the criminal legal system through our in-facility educational programs and re-entry care management services. We are dedicated to breaking barriers, cultivating innovation, accepting accountability, building skills, and forging meaningful connections that allow people navigating the criminal legal system to achieve their highest potential
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We walk alongside our participants from the inside out through our four program offerings: The Challenge, The Transformation, The Return, and The Exemplar. Our peoples journey and our first program offering, The Challenge, begins inside facilities. The Challenge is a 32-week (8-month) program in which they will be asked to alter their lives and mindsets in difficult and vulnerable ways that enhance each individual's Job Readiness, Character Development, Reentry Planning, and the Entrepreneurial Mindset. Soft skills covered include, but are not limited to, emotional self-awareness, self-assessment, self-alignment, self-confidence, self-blame, self-restraint, stress tolerance, and resilience. Job readiness and reentry planning topics include goal-setting, job search in the 21st century, resume building, intro to interviewing, time management, budgeting and cost of living, community resources, and mock interviews. The entrepreneurial mindset dives into business ideation, business models, finance, customer development, and teamwork. The Challenge builds upon itself from week to week designed to facilitate a stable trajectory of growth. Our participants have the opportunity to remain…
$351,164 spent56% of program spendingFor our participants rejoining society, we support them in their unique transition through The Return. During The Return, participants will be assisted as they work to gain stability and successfully acclimate to the outside. Our primary role for those in The Return is obtaining and maintaining stable employment while helping them to fill skill gaps as they embark on their chosen career path. To help our program participants successfully stabilize we connect them with trusted community partners specializing in their area of need. The key factors of stability include food, clothing, housing, transportation, employment, safety, mental health/substance abuse, program completion, and personal identification. Once participants have found stability they begin the final stage of their journey, The Exemplar. In this stage, we focus on career development, personal growth, and entrepreneurial guidance. People in The Exemplar program have access to our dedicated network of mentors and career workshops.
$277,201 spent44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $628,365.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $165k to $285k (+73%).
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: 2019 2% · 2022 18% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Jenn Mendelson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 20 funders, grant income rose $40k → $796k.
16 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
72% 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 Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
25% of Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
79% of Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado 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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $353k on record.
- Department of Justice$353k
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 Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc?
- Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,610,232 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($351,400). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,610,232 in grants to Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $351,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 44 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