Colorado · Nonprofit
CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION
CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,996 to it, the largest being ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ($525,667). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $531k
- Net assets
- $77M
What Caring for Denver Foundation does
Mission
To address denver's mental health and substance misuse needs by growing community informed solutions and turning the community's desire to help into action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, made 95 grants that align with caring for denver's mission and founding ordinance; provide increased access to and use of supports that improve mental health and substance misuse challenges; reach communities who have been impacted by trauma and inequitable access to resources and supports; are meaningful to the community, where they are, and in the forms that work for them; and, engage more individuals in ongoing support that stays aligned with their needs, even as needs change.
$43,607,832 spentof which $43,607,832 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,607,832.
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 $53M to $74M (+39%).
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 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 94% · 2024 93% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Leslie Herod
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $130k → $124k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $525k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Caring for Denver Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION’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
CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City and County of Denver · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION: 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 CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,996 to it, the largest being ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC ($525,667). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $530,996 in grants to CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION?
- ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $525,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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