Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,255,279 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,140,829). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Denver Research Institute does
Mission
The Denver Research Institute was established for the purpose of providing medical research and educational programs related to advancing the research mission of the veterans affairs medical center in denver, co.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Face the fight - implementing computerized cognitive behavioral therapies for suicide prevention: as highlighted in the department of veterans affairs national strategy for prevention veteran suicide (2018-2028), the enterprise has adopted a public approach to suicide prevention. This entails implementing both clinical and community based strategies. Towards this end, the vha has been focused on the implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies (ebps) for selected and indicated veteran's populations. As part of the transformation of its mental health care system, the vha promoted the national dissemination and implementation of ebps in vha. Face the fight - implementation of effective & culturally responsive vets: in the ongoing effort to reduce veteran suicide and promote lethal means safety, the work will be with veteran-serving mental health organizations who have participated in the initial face the fight project to refine and expand upon the lethal means safety counseling policies and staff trainings. Specifically, trainings will be new, innovative lethal means safety intervention involving veterans and their concerned significant others: the family firearms safety…
$3,620,330 spentof which $162,462 as grants$1,811,966 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,620,330.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.3M to $5.4M (+61%).
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 80% · 2018 72% · 2019 78% · 2020 74% · 2021 84% · 2022 66% · 2023 63% · 2024 16% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
Robert Keith Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $603k → $272k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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
DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 45% · 2019 81% · 2020 87% · 2021 66% · 2022 54% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.2M on record.
- Department of Defense$10.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$430k
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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
78% 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 2 related entities
- Western Co Health Care System · disregarded
- Montana Va Medical Center · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,255,279 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,140,829). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $7,255,279 in grants to DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,140,829 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 17 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