Colorado · Nonprofit
HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT
HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,122,460 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($414,572). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $446k
What Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to provide life-sustaining services and programsfocusing on dignity, empowerment and self-sufficiency. The organization provides the onlyyear-round overnight service center for the homeless community in longmont while offeringsupportive follow-through services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sheltering services: in 2024, we operated year round sheltering for the sixth year in longmont. The target population of those we serve is people experiencing homelessness in boulder county who are willing to work or capture an income and meet with a case manager once per week. In 2024, we served 133 unique individuals for a cumulative 365 nights of sheltering. Hope's outreach center at 804 s. Lincoln st., assisted 1,448 individuals with resources, food and water, and personal needs. All hope programs contributed to housing 67 individuals.
$847,824 spent75% of program spendingEmergency assistance - this program provides many services including medical respite - a safe place to heal for those with no indoor place to recover. This health-focused service is an important link in the transition out of homelessness for many people, and hope is the only agency in longmont to offer this type of aid. Illness or injury does not have to disrupt a homless person's progress toward self-sufficiency. If feasible, we allow the medical respite participants to convalesce at the nighttime navigation center. If that is not a feasible options, hope purchase nights at a hotel for the medical respite participant. The target population is people experiencing homelessness in longmont who need medical respite due to a serious medical issue that would be exacerbated by being on the streets. Partipants must be referred to hope by a medical professional.
$45,880 spent4% of program spendingStreet outreach: volunteers reach out day and night to meet people where they are found in parks, at the library, or on the streets in order to provide food, basic supplies and information about resources. This service is crucial in connecting and building relationships with people who may fly under the radar otherwise, or who may need to re-connect with hope programs. The target population is anyone experiencing homelessness in longmont. The organization's lthere street outreach program is on the streets of longmont 20 hours a week and helped 1,448 of those experiencing homelessness with resources and food, as well as assistance with vital documents towards housing. An outreach center serves as hope's hub for individuals experiencing homelessness to acquire case management, resources, and food insecurity and personal needs.
$240,299 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,134,003.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $429k to $660k (+54%).
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: 2019 48% · 2020 25% · 2021 6% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Alice Sueltenfuss
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $105k → $104k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 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
HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
92% 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 HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 72% · 2019 46% · 2020 26% · 2021 30% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% — 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
31% of HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
83% of HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT'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 $192k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $931k 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
HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT: 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 HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT?
- HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,122,460 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($414,572). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,122,460 in grants to HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $414,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMELESS OUTREACH PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 24 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