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COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC

COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,118 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($182,062). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$348k
Net assets
$2.1M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Community Living Alternatives Inc does

Mission

Cla's mission is to enhance the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities toward fulfillment of their life goals through choice and support in homes, employment and community activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cla provided residential support services to 35 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in host homes (adult foster care).cla provided day program services to 23individuals in supported community connections services and 24 individuals in specialized habilitation activities (facility based skill development and activities in such areas as computers, exercise,meditation, gardening, cooking, music, and arts and crafts.

    $2,889,696 spent$3,255,300 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,889,696.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 96 ($2.7M) Expenses 96 ($2.7M) Net assets 102 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 91 ($2.6M) Expenses 93 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 101 ($2.9M) Expenses 97 ($2.8M) Net assets 106 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 94 ($2.7M) Net assets 117 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 102 ($2.9M) Expenses 101 ($2.9M) Net assets 117 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 118 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 111 ($3.2M) Expenses 110 ($3.1M) Net assets 120 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 119 ($3.4M) Expenses 121 ($3.4M) Net assets 118 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (121)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

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 $2.2M to $2.4M (+9%).

$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$32k
’18
−$30k
’19
$109k
’20
$178k
’21
$35k
’22
$18k
’23
$42k
’24
−$52k
’25
3.4
months of
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.

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Listed12121112910111010
Joined·+2+0+1+0+1+1+2+0
No longer listed·21030030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $58k → $80k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC’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

COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC.

52%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 62% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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.

Where its funders are

96% of COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC?
COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,118 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($182,062). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $348,118 in grants to COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES INC?
THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $182,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY LIVING ALTERNATIVES 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.

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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 5 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