Colorado · Nonprofit
HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY
HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,870,392 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,833,774). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley does
Mission
Provide assistance and services to homeless persons in the grand valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The emergency shelter provides services and overnight housing for homeless persons in the grand valley. Homewardbound operates the only shelter in a 100 mile radius, serving veterans, single men and women and families. The family transitional program provides case management, housing, and support services helping to address the generational issues of poverty. The health center is located on the second floor of the pathways family shelter and is operated through a partnership with scl health and colorado mesa university's nursing department. Homewardbounds' family navigation guides an underserved population experiencing low income and homelessness in order for them to receive medical and behavioral health assistance from our partners.
$2,307,712 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,307,712.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.5M to $9.5M (+109%).
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 15% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 15% · 2021 38% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% · 2024 63% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
114% of HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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
Rick Smith
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $196k → $400k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
58% 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 BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 69% · 2019 38% · 2020 21% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 48% — 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
38% of HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $112k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$112k
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 BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY?
- HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,870,392 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,833,774). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $4,870,392 in grants to HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY?
- WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,833,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY 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 31 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