Colorado · Nonprofit
GRIFFITH CENTERS
GRIFFITH CENTERS (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359,480 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($355,261). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Griffith Centers does
Mission
Strengthening colorado communities one family at a time, Griffith Centers provides community-based programs such as family preservation, day treatment, education, truancy prevention and counseling services and community-based services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Griffith Centers also provides residential based programs such as foster care, respite services, foster to adopt homes, residential facility and treatment. We are able to provide healing and hope to thousands as a non-profit agency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential: the residential treatment program, located in colorado springs, colorado, serves adolescent boys ages 13-18 within licensed residential childcare facilities. The program has a total licensed capacity of 16 individuals and is nationally accredited by the council on accreditation. Between october 1, 2024, and september 30, 2025, Griffith Centers served 30 youth through its residential treatment program. The average length of stay was 5 months and 5 days. Core strategies for success include family and support system involvement, experiential learning, restorative justice practices, skills and asset development, positive behavior supports, and therapeutic interventions.
$1,550,366 spent$2,317,241 earned by the program18% of program spendingEducation: Griffith Centers' education program, operated through the j. Wilkins opportunity school, provides a therapeutic, alternative educational setting for students in grades 3 through 12 whose academic and behavioral needs are not adequately met in traditional school environments. The program primarily serves students with individualized education plans (ieps) or 504 plans and those impacted by trauma, school disruption, or behavioral health challenges. Through small class sizes and individualized instruction, the program integrates academic coursework with therapeutic supports to address both educational and emotional needs. Educational services include individualized learning plans, credit recovery, ged pathways, and specialized interventions in reading and math, all supported by ongoing academic and behavioral assessments. Licensed therapists provide individual, group, and family therapy, ensuring a comprehensive, wraparound approach to student success. The program also incorporates experiential and community-based learning opportunities, as well as career and technical education, to build life skills, resilience, and readiness for postsecondary success.
$1,191,211 spent$1,383,522 earned by the program14% of program spendingPasa: Griffith Centers' program approved service agency (pasa) provides comprehensive, person-centered services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd), supporting their ability to live with independence, dignity, and meaningful community connection. Through a collaborative, wraparound approach, pasa delivers a broad range of services tailored to individual needs, including residential supports, personal care, homemaker services, supported employment, pre-vocational training, behavioral services, and community-based day programming. Services are designed to build daily living skills, promote self-sufficiency, and enhance quality of life, while working closely with families, caregivers, and community partners to ensure continuity of care. Pasa serves individuals participating in colorado's developmental disabilities (dd) and supported living services (sls) waivers and emphasizes trauma-informed, relationship-centered care to support long-term success and stability. During the reporting period, the pasa program served approximately 57 members.
$4,012,081 spent$2,062,005 earned by the program46% of program spendingFoster care:as a licensed child placement agency, Griffith Centers provides foster care, foster adoption, short-term respite, and sibling group placement services. This program adheres to the family to family model, providing therapeutic supervised visitation and family preservation services to biological families as well as in-home services in order to achieve reunification, increase stabilization, and decrease disruptions of foster youth. There are initial and on-going trainings for foster families, support groups, and 24/7 crisis intervention.
$1,913,441 spent$4,143,772 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,667,099.
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 $4.7M to $6.5M (+37%).
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: 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of GRIFFITH CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% 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.
Chief executive
Tania Sossi
President/CEO
Board chair
David Brinker
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $98k → $107k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $243k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Griffith Centers for Children Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GRIFFITH CENTERS raised.
From the IRS filings of GRIFFITH CENTERS’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
GRIFFITH CENTERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
87% 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 GRIFFITH CENTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 63% · 2019 41% · 2020 38% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 57% — 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
44% of GRIFFITH CENTERS'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
98% of GRIFFITH CENTERS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GRIFFITH CENTERS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GRIFFITH CENTERS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 2 related entities
- Colorado Springs Asset Management LLC · disregarded
- Griffith Centers for Children Foundation Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRIFFITH CENTERS: 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 GRIFFITH CENTERS?
- GRIFFITH CENTERS (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359,480 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($355,261). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRIFFITH CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,359,480 in grants to GRIFFITH CENTERS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRIFFITH CENTERS?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $355,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRIFFITH CENTERS 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