Colorado · Nonprofit
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,064 to it, the largest being IMAGINE FOUNDATION ($606,419). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Developmental Disabilities Center does
Mission
The mission of the Developmental Disabilities Center dba imagine is creating a world of opportunity for all abilities. Our goal is to help people aspire to and achieve a fulfilling life of new possibilities. We do this by providing services designed to incorporate people with developmental, cognitive, and physical challenges into the fabric of their communities. Services include development services, educational and therapeutic services, job training and placement, recreation and leisure activities, opportunities for community living, mental health services, and behavioral health services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
As of july 1, 2024, imagine is a provider agency that only provides direct services to individuals and no longer provides case management, organized health care delivery system, early intervention, asd and family support services. As part of the termination of these services, imagine contributed certain current assets and land, building and equipment to another nonprofit organization.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Residential is customized residential and community access options to people of all ages with physical, developmental, and cognitive disabilities. Residential settings include host home and companion homes, group homes, family models, along with nursing and financial supports.
$13,559,734 spent$14,775,211 earned by the program46% of program spendingAdult community services (acs) and employment services provide opportunities for social, vocational and educational growth to adults with physical and cognitive challenges. These services and supports promote community integration through activities such as work, recreation, and senior citizen activities. Acs provides therapeutic recreation which focuses on providing life-long learning experiences to allow each individual to reach their highest potential. Classes and lesson plans focus on improving a persons physical, cognitive, social, emotional and leisure needs through activity intervention. Imagine plans and facilitates an activity for their client and ensures that skills are practiced and goals are achieved. Activities include a wide variety of community-based recreational programming such as photography, volunteer work, science, swimming, equine therapy and arts & crafts. Individuals served 187 employment services provides a range of job preparation, job search, job coaching and training support for individuals with the goal of providing competitive integrated employment opportunities for all. The preferred outcome is full inclusion employment with regular compensation,…
$4,341,900 spent$4,127,066 earned by the program15% of program spendingSchool aged services (sas) provides high quality therapeutic recreation through imagines after school program, summer camp and school closure days. The program focuses on improving a persons physical, cognitive, social, emotional and leisure needs through activity interventions. Imagine typically plans and facilitates an activity for their client and ensures that certain skills are practiced and goals are achieved during the session. Activities include community-based recreational programming such as visiting water parks, amusement parks, fishing, hiking, swimming, equine therapy and, arts & crafts. Imagine also offers a transitional program geared toward adolescents and young adults ages 16-24, designed to ease the transition from childhood to adulthood focused on increasing independence, practicing financial skills and further developing social skills. Individuals served 117
$1,158,270 spent$1,254,667 earned by the program4% of program spendingFamily recruited employer is uniquely designed to provide families with the opportunity to find, recruit, and utilize individuals they know and trust to provide services for their loved one. The service was developed to meet a need and address a gap in services in a cost-efficient manner. The service preserves consumer dignity by allowing trusted family members to be paid to provide certain aspects of care instead of having an employee of an agency with whom they are not familiar assist with these tasks. It also allows parents respite from primary care evenings, weekends, holidays or overnights, hours, or days when typical agencies may not offer support. Individuals served 66 expense: 942,298 revenue: 1,053,921 behavioral offers expert behavioral health support to individuals of all ages, families, and their support network with a comprehensive, teaming approach through direct intervention including consultation, evaluation, advocacy, education, and program development. Individuals served 87 expense: 667,067 revenue: 730,021 other support programs includes other programs such as the mental health services which provides resources to improve the living situation of local citizens.…
$10,247,538 spentof which $7,960,244 as grants$2,620,515 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,307,442.
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 2024 to 2025, from $28M to $23M (−18%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% 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.
Chief executive
Jodi Walters
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $41k → $117k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER’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
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 66% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 71% · 2022 49% · 2023 71% — 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
29% of DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
77% of DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $680k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28 on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$28
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 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER
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
92% 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
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Imagine Foundation · exempt
- Ddc Foothills · exempt
- Imagine Housing Corp II · exempt
- Imagine Housing Corp III · exempt
- Imagine Development Company Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER?
- DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,064 to it, the largest being IMAGINE FOUNDATION ($606,419). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,529,064 in grants to DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER?
- IMAGINE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $606,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER 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 25 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