Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME
DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME (Colorado) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,593,406 to it, the largest being HUNTER ESTELLE CHAR-MAIN ($1,162,784). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Denver Children's Home does
Mission
Denver Children's Home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services: children and teens admitted to our residential program have experienced trauma, abuse, severe neglect, and are diagnosed with a serious mental illness. Children and teens ages 9 to 18 reside in five dormitories each with a common area and bathroom. Dorms have air conditioning and heating. Round the clock staffing (including awake staff overnight) ensure the safety and health of clients.
$4,677,851 spent$5,106,608 earned by the program56% of program spendingEducation: our on-site school is a therapeutic, educational, and positive socio-emotional environment that contributes to the success of the children and teens in our educational program. Bansbach academy is accredited by advanced ed and the colorado department of education. Core academics are combined with programs that promote self-sufficiency, leadership development, entrepreneurship and character development.
$1,440,713 spent$1,684,879 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity based services: in-home: families that are served in this program have often struggled to succeed in other therapeutic settings. We employ a variety of evidenced- based and trauma-informed interventions ranging from experiential therapies (sand tray, play therapy, art therapy, and animal-assisted therapy) to more traditional talk therapy techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) and dialectical behavioral therapy (dbt). Treatment is tailored to meet the needs of each family. Day treatment: our day treatment program serves children ages 9 to 18 who have experienced trauma, abuse, severe neglect, and are diagnosed with a serious mental illness. These clients come five days a week for therapeutic and educational services. All day treatment clients are enrolled in our on-site accredited school, the bansbach academy. Services are offered year-round.
$1,679,699 spent$568,807 earned by the program20% of program spendingDiscovery home and inspire home: these specialized programs offer supportive, transitional housing for adolescents with the goal of helping low-income and at-risk high school students prepare for the future. Most of the participants in the program have no viable options for family, while others have identified that emancipation provides a more realistic opportunity to achieve success. In both homes, residents receive support and training in education, employment, life skills, home management, character-building and individualized and group mental health counseling.
$607,972 spent$540,208 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,406,235.
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 $13M to $16M (+23%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $242k → $744k.
11 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $2.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Denver Children's Home Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME raised.
From the IRS filings of DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 37% · 2019 23% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — 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
46% of DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$41k
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 DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
- Denver Children's Home Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME?
- DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME (Colorado) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,593,406 to it, the largest being HUNTER ESTELLE CHAR-MAIN ($1,162,784). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $4,593,406 in grants to DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME?
- HUNTER ESTELLE CHAR-MAIN is the largest funder on record, with $1,162,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing