Colorado · Nonprofit
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,578,635 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($1,861,964). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado does
Mission
Florence crittenton services' mission is to educate, prepare, and empower teen mothers and their children. Using a trauma-responsive, two generation program model, teen families are supported through education, early childhood education, health and wellness, and economic and social asset building.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The early childhood education (ece) center has ten classrooms and serves up to 108 children and promotes physical, cognitive and social-emotional development for children beginning at six weeks old through pre-k. The center is open year-round to serve the children of teen moms. It provides children with nutritious, family-style meals cooked in our scratch kitchen; three age-appropriate playgrounds and daily early literacy activities integrated into teaching strategies' creative curriculum. Teachers receive in-house assessment and coaching from our in-house quality coach, using teachstone's classroom assessment scoring system mental health center of denver provides on-site classroom support for teachers around trauma-informed behavior management. The center has a robust family engagement program that includes parent-teacher conferences for teen parents to monitor their children's growth and progress and family activities in which teen parents and family members join the children in classroom activities and celebrations.during the covid-19 pandemic, the ece center continued offering both on-site and remote learning programming for children. Programming was temporarily modified…
$2,101,642 spent$2,457,625 earned by the program57% of program spendingStudent & family support program (sfsp) is a team of highly qualified family advocates and other professionals working year-round to provide culturally responsive, asset-based social-emotional education and support to teen parents, including on-site case management, weekly support groups, after-school and summer enrichment activities, family engagement programming, art therapy, career readiness support, and transition services and housing support for alumni. Denver health provides free, on-site medical care for both teen mothers and children in the campus health center.through partnerships with the denver children's advocacy center (dcac) and denver health, sfsp staff also provide on-site mental health counseling services to teen mothers. In collaboration with community partners, teen families can also access a range of other on-site services, including provision of diapers, wipes, car seats, and strollers; public transportation passes; cooking and nutrition classes; legal services; and housing assistance. In addition, the transitions advocate assists alumnae in developing holistic post-secondary plans and provides additional support once teen mothers leave the florence crittenton…
$1,182,846 spent32% of program spendingFlorence crittenton high school - academic program for teen moms is operated in partnership with denver public schools (dps). Dps hires all high school staff and is responsible for the academic programming for the school. The funding for this program is provided by dps, and is reported as in-kind contribution to florence crittenton services. In fy23, the in-kind contributions were 2,610,959, compared to in-kind contributions of 2,542,795 in fy22. The high school includes a medconnect certification program available for academic credit, and staff especially dedicated to helping teen moms prepare for college, vocational training or career development. The majority of the in-kind contributions from dps consists of donated services which have been eliminated from the form 990 per irs requirements (2,221,119 and 2,223,496 in fy23 and fy22, respectively.)
$389,840 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,674,328.
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 $10M to $12M (+19%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO’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.
Chief executive
Desta Taye Channell
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $929k → $1.3M.
19 of 92 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 FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% 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 FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 26% · 2019 28% · 2020 27% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% — 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
54% of FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
81% of FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $380k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$380k
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 FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO
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
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO?
- FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,578,635 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($1,861,964). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $10,578,635 in grants to FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO?
- MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,861,964 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO 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 92 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