Colorado · Nonprofit
GROWING HOME INC
GROWING HOME INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,226,654 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($933,069). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Growing Home Inc does
Mission
In partnership with the community, growing home advances access to food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability to create lasting change for the future. Growing home envisions a thriving and healthy community for all. Our participant-centered approach to strengthening families, nurturing children, and connecting community fills a critical gap for families and children who are experiencing immediate and long-term barriers to stability and success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food: growing home believes that access to a wide variety of healthy food is essential to the stability of our communities. We provide a choice- shopping food pantry model open five shifts a week, we operate a seasonal community garden, and we engage in community impact work that aligns to our priority pathways.
$989,085 spent32% of program spendingParenting education: growing home helps caregivers acquire the skills and resources they need to ensure their children and future generations are on a path to a brighter future. This includes education and coaching on child development and parenting practices that help prepare kids for a lifetime of success. Programs are evidence-based and support a two-generation approach, including the parents as teachers home visitation program.
$1,102,451 spent36% of program spendingLifelong stability: growing home believes that thriving, stable communities can exist when the organization taps into the resiliency and leadership of its participants. Collaborative coaching, resource navigation, connecting community are programs that focus on long-term stability in the form of case management, goal setting, community impact and engagement. Growing home focuses on community organizing, leadership development, and community-led projects such as a community garden. Our community engagement focuses on our priority pathways of food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability.
$417,187 spent14% of program spendingHousing: growing home believes in affordable, accessible housing for all. Our housing stability program commitment-based case management with goal setting, rental/utility assistance, contingency stay assistance, housing advocacy that includes community education and engagement. The goal is for participants at to be stably housed and remain stably housed at program exit and remain stably housed long-term.
$551,891 spent$750,075 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,060,614.
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 $3.9M to $4.5M (+15%).
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 42% · 2018 51% · 2019 60% · 2020 49% · 2021 41% · 2022 42% · 2023 42% · 2024 49% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GROWING HOME INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% 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
Veronica Perez
CEO
Board chair
Michelle Bettis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $387k → $728k.
10 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 GROWING HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
GROWING HOME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 GROWING HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of GROWING HOME INC'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
88% of GROWING HOME INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
GROWING HOME INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GROWING HOME INC
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC?
- GROWING HOME INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,226,654 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($933,069). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $5,226,654 in grants to GROWING HOME INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING HOME INC?
- MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $933,069 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING HOME INC 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 56 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