Colorado · Nonprofit
COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD
COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,824 to it, the largest being LEO AND YUKI GRAHAM FOUNDATION ($450,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $666k
What Cobbled Streets-Helping Homeless & Foster Kids Move Forward does
Mission
Provide children in foster and kinship care with individualized experiences and enriching opportunities so they can discover, connect and belong.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Guiding lights - enriching opportunities: child centered opportunities - like sports, music, tutoring, equine therapy, camps and family outings; matched to a young person's unique interest and needs. Best practice & evidence based research confirms such activities improve mental health, school attendance, and behavior. They offer youth a chance to build confidence, a sense of belonging and connection. 100% of the foster/kinship parents agree these experiences helped build positive childhood memories and allowed them to continue as foster/kinship care parents without burning out. In 2025, cobbled streets provided 5,705 experiences.
$407,802 spent56% of program spendingAmbassador project - in partnership with be the source, have created a network of ambassadors across 13 judicial districts in colorado. Ambassadors host local gatherings, creating fun welcoming opportunities to connect, learn, play and participate; creating communities they can turn to for support and guidance, rather than feeling alone and isolated. These events are consistent, safe spaces where families can return again and again, strengthening relationships, building trust and connecting families to local resources. 3,612 children participated in community events across the state and 96% of foster/kinship parents say cobbled streets is an important part of their support network.
$108,113 spent15% of program spendingOur advocacy efforts continue to inform and push stakeholders and lawmakers to find ways to improve the foster care system. Our short documentary continues to be widely distributed; shown on pbs and through youtube. Shari shink, ed and founder, has published 5 articles in magazines and news papers both nationally and in colorado. Work continues on our full length documentary.
$206,124 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $722,039.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $233k to $444k (+91%).
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.
99% of COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $165k → $309k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD’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
COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 60% · 2022 44% · 2023 32% — 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
75% of COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $667k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD: 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 COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD?
- COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,824 to it, the largest being LEO AND YUKI GRAHAM FOUNDATION ($450,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,379,824 in grants to COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD?
- LEO AND YUKI GRAHAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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