Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC
DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,070,926 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,826,221). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Denver Indian Center Inc does
Mission
To empower american indian youth, elders, families, and community by promoting self-determination and economic, mental, and physical health through education, advocacy, and cultural enrichment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Honoring fatherhood program: the honoring fatherhood program (hfp) was established to equip and encourage fathers to live with integrity and purpose, and to strengthen the families, homes and communities they are a part of.our curriculum helps participants gain a deeper understanding of relationships and parenting within a cultural context. Hfp's approach is to bring back an old message that emphasizes the sacredness of fatherhood and equips its participants with real world skills and support for success in their careers, communities, and most importantly their families. Our programs act as a guide in establishing priorities, practices and activities that put the most important things first.
$505,105 spent$678,818 earned by the program33% of program spendingNative workforce program: the native workforce program (nwp) is an adult workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) program funded directly by the department of labor (dol). The purpose of this program is to support comprehensive employment and training activities because a skilled workforce is critical to the future of our native communities.
$475,548 spent31% of program spendingYouth services and family and community resource: the denver indian center is an urban cultural gathering center for the american indian/alaska native community of the denver metro area. Founded in 1983 to meet the unique needs and challenges facing the native community, we support our native youth and community by providing guidance for economic empowerment and self-reliance, programs that empower families and honor our elders, and by offering a space where native culture can be preserved and celebrated.
$533,949 spent35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,514,602.
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 2019 to 2020, from $856k to $2.2M (+153%).
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: 2022 17% · 2023 10% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Rose Mcguire
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $0 → $326k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 INDIAN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 INDIAN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 42% · 2021 79% · 2022 39% · 2023 34% — 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
36% of DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
85% of DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 INDIAN CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.2M
- Department of Labor$6.0M
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 INDIAN CENTER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Denver Indian Center Development Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC: 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 DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC?
- DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,070,926 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,826,221). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,070,926 in grants to DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,826,221 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER INDIAN CENTER 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 32 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