Colorado · Nonprofit
DRY BONES DENVER
DRY BONES DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,403,132 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($306,400). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $879k
What Dry Bones Denver does
Mission
Helping homeless teens and young adults through outreach and life skills training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Our social enterprise, Purple Door Coffee, was closed at the end of February 2025. This was the hands on coffee roaster and coffee shop job training program. We continue to provide a life skills program that includes job readiness curriculum.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Support and teach teens and young adults about living an effective, responsible life and thus give them a pathway to society.
$649,949 spentof which $172,304 as grants$1,215,451 earned by the program71% of program spendingTo employ and provide job training to homeless young adults who are working to exit homelessness through our coffee roasting and coffee shop businesses. We employ 3-5 homeless young adults, who work 20-30 hours per week over a 12 month period. Our job training and mentoring curriculum focuses on transferrable job skills, life and coping skills, and individual support. Employees are paid a working wage and develop workplace skills like problem solving, communication, and processes. This program was discontinued on 02/28/2025.
$260,571 spentof which $90,962 as grants$4,541 earned by the program29% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $910,520.
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 2021 to 2022, from $663k to $955k (+44%).
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 2% · 2021 17% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 8% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of DRY BONES DENVER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $32k → $158k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 DRY BONES DENVER’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
DRY BONES DENVER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
85% 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 DRY BONES DENVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 44% · 2019 78% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 74% · 2023 31% — 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
64% of DRY BONES DENVER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
64% of DRY BONES DENVER'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 $499k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $904k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DRY BONES DENVER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DRY BONES DENVER
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
89% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRY BONES DENVER: 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 DRY BONES DENVER?
- DRY BONES DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,403,132 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($306,400). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DRY BONES DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,403,132 in grants to DRY BONES DENVER, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRY BONES DENVER?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $306,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRY BONES DENVER 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 28 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