Colorado · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER
CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,922,120 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ($5,682,500). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver does
Mission
As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. Catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver anticipates and stimulates support for its services, provides those services effectively and faithfully, and through its charitable ministry, seeks to influence the social and cultural environments in which it serves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The family and children services division provides child welfare, and counseling services to birth parents with unplanned pregnancies. It also provides services and referrals to relatives raising children as well as services to the elderly and disabled. In addition, family and children services provide daycare programs and head start in metro denver through several child care centers including the margery reed mayo center.
$14,014,015 spentof which $393,115 as grants$6,816,042 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe shelter and community outreach services division provides temporary shelter and meals as well as case management for individuals experiencing homelessness at samaritan house, marisol home in the metro denver area. It also provides employment referrals and assistance, transitional housing services to individuals and families, and immigration assistance. In addition, emergency assistance is provided to individuals and families in need of basic necessities in metro denver.
$20,430,306 spentof which $3,477,999 as grants$1,401,028 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe weld county division provides temporary shelter and meals as well as case management for individuals experiencing homelessness at the samaritan house greeley. In addition, it also provides services to low-income seniors, and emergency assistance to individuals and families in need of basic necessities in weld county and the surrounding area.
$2,748,204 spentof which $845,265 as grants$171,861 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe larimer county division provides temporary shelter and meals as well as case management for individuals experiencing homelessness at sam house in fort collins. In addition, it also provides transitional housing services, services to low-income seniors, and emergency assistance to individuals and families in need of basic necessities in larimer county and the surrounding area. The western slope division provides family transitional housing services, immigration assistance and advocacy, and emergency assistance to individuals and families in need of basic necessities, including food, rent, and utilities to clients in the glenwood springs and surrounding western slope of colorado.
$3,569,425 spentof which $819,092 as grants$319,087 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,761,950.
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 $31M to $42M (+36%).
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 19% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 26% · 2024 36% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Darren Walsh
CEO
Board chair
Brent Osland
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $6.0M.
35 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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: $18M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Colorado Affordable Catholic Housing Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER raised.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
91% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 18% · 2022 14% · 2023 18% — 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
44% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
55% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER'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 $16M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER's revenue grew 57% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Catholic Archdiocese of Denver · exempt
- Cccs Farm Labor Housing Corp · exempt
- Archdiocesan Housing Inc · exempt
- Marisol Health Inc · exempt
- Mount Loretto LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,922,120 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ($5,682,500). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $35,922,120 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER?
- THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $5,682,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 125 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