Colorado · Nonprofit
HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC
HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,919,236 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ($1,580,158). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Homeward Alliance Inc does
Mission
To support and work collaboratively with other nonprofits who are working to empower individuals and families who face homelessness to survive, move forward, and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Northern colorado continuum of care (noco coc): homeward alliance serves as the collaborative applicant for the northern colorado continuum of care, which coordinates homelessness response efforts across larimer and weld counties. Homeward alliance leads strategic planning, manages the annual federal continuum of care funding application, coordinates governance and stakeholder engagement, oversees system performance, and facilitates collaboration among housing, healthcare, behavioral health, and human service providers to improve housing outcomes and reduce homelessness.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Murphy center: we operate the murphy center (mc), a day shelter and the hub of resources for people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness in larimer county. More than a dozen agencies, including homeward alliance, collaboratively operate 30-plus services at the building. Homeward alliance coordinates those activities and oversees day-to-day operations. In 2025, the mc served more than 2,500 unduplicated individuals. We recorded over 7,500 showers, about 1,600 loads of laundry, and 33,500 day shelter check- ins.
$958,911 spent21% of program spendingHousing: our housing services department is comprised of multiple initiatives that, collectively, help a range of subpopulations escape or avoid homelessness. In 2025, we empowered more than 400 individuals (including family members) to escape homelessness and helped at least another 63 families avoid homelessness. Programs include (a) frequent utilizers system engagement (fuse): intensive, wraparound support to people escaping chronic homelessness, (b) mason place: on-site case management for 60 residents at housing catalysts mason place permanent supportive housing project (psh) in fort collins (d) competency: housing-focused case management and resource navigation for individuals who have been charged with/convicted of minor offenses but deemed unfit (due to disabling conditions) to stand trial, and (e) housing navigation: housing-search, document acquisition and rent assistance for individuals and families seeking housing in larimer county.
$711,355 spentof which $472,320 as grants16% of program spendingEmployment and resource navigation (earn): (formerly listed as dedicated navigator) resource navigators (a) provide task-oriented services, including document acquisition assistance (e.g. Birth certificates), benefits enrollment, and employment-search assistance, (b) divert people out of homelessness at intake (e.g. Rent assistance) or reunify them with friends/family who have stable housing, and (c) serve as the largest intake point for the northern colorado continuum of cares coordinated entry systemthe primary system through which people escape chronic homelessness in larimer and weld counties. Resource navigators operate at multiple locations in larimer county. In 2025, the program served over 3,000 individuals, completed 3,300 referrals/enrollments into other programs, helped 286 participants obtain or retain employment, and helped 54 individuals escape homelessness via diversion/reunification.
$546,818 spent12% of program spendingRe-entry: we provide intensive, employment-and-housing-focused case management to people on parole. The program is funded by the state of colorados work and gain employment and education skills (wagees) program; wagees funds a statewide network of agencies that use shared practices to provide similar servicesin collaboration with paroleto people on parole. The program serves about 100 participants per year. In 2025, only 5% of program participants recidivated (returned to prison). About 50% of program participants obtained job-training certifications/credentials, and about 64% retained employment for at least 90 days. Family services (formerly listed as family housing and family resources, now combined): we provide a range of short- and long-term services to families who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness: (a) regular family resource fairs, through which we and other organizations provide a range of services/information to families, (b) clothing/hygiene closet for families, known as family resource connection, that can be accessed by other services providers 24/7 (or by appointment for families), (c) rent/security deposit assistance for families escaping or avoiding…
$2,369,239 spent$36,940 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,586,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.2M to $3.3M (+51%).
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: 2018 12% · 2019 22% · 2020 63% · 2021 53% · 2022 43% · 2023 51% · 2024 58% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC’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. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Mary Lynn Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $141k → $747k.
15 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
75% 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 HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 64% · 2023 51% — 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
40% of HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
85% of HOMEWARD ALLIANCE 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. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $644k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$644k
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 HOMEWARD ALLIANCE 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hwa Properties LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC?
- HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,919,236 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC ($1,580,158). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $5,919,236 in grants to HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,158 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMEWARD ALLIANCE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 63 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