Colorado · Nonprofit
HopeWest
HopeWest (Colorado) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,881,730 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,774,046). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $43M
What HopeWest does
Mission
Created through a community-wide vision, HopeWest is dedicated to profoundly changing the experiences of aging, illness, and grief one family at a time through creativity, volunteerism, and philanthropy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HopeWest Hospice offers compassionate support and high quality comprehensive care to individuals and families across 10,000 miles of western Colorado serving five counties. Our largest program and expenditure is hospice care. We serve more than 490 patients and families every day. Patients are cared for by an expert interdisciplinary team including hospice/palliative certified physicians and advance practice nurses. Hospice served more than 2120 patients. More than 600 received individualized short-term care at Ferris Care Center. Care is designed to meet the needs of patients and families during times when a more intensive level of care is needed. Community support through philanthropy and volunteerism ensures HopeWest is able to be there for our community.
$28,366,659 spent$37,883,245 earned by the program46% of program spendingHopeWest PACE provided high quality care to more than 225 participants in 2025. With PACE, a team of health care professionals works with each individual to make sure needed services are coordinated. PACE programs get to know their participants and design services to meet each person's unique needs. The Center for Living Your Best houses a clinic, adult day center with activities and meals, as well as physical and occupation therapy opportunities that enhance the continued health and well-being of our participants. Our dedicated staff ensure each participant is provided with the medical and support services so they can be safe living at home for as long as possible.
$25,876,462 spent$28,236,326 earned by the program42% of program spendingCommunity programs is our third largest program expenditure. Services are offered to grieving adults through support groups and one-on-one counseling. HopeWest Kids provides grief services to children ages 3-19 through school groups, equine therapy, grief camps and art therapy. More than 800 children and adults were served last year. We also offer two different Palliative Care Programs. Palliative Care is for people with serious health conditions not yet eligible for hospice or are still receiving curative treatment. More than 228 patients were served last year. These programs offer a variety of specialized care to meet our patient's needs to gain back quality of life for them and their loved ones.
$3,296,873 spent$5,363,924 earned by the program5% of program spendingRetail Outlets- HopeWest operates retail entities to provide an opportunity for the community to know us before they need us. Heirlooms for Hospice is an upscale resale store featuring treasures donated by the community. Families of those HopeWest has served find comfort knowing the treasures they donate help support HopeWest. We have three different locations in Grand Junction, Montrose, and Delta. We also operate Spoons bistro and bakery located on the Ferris Care Center Campus in Grand Junction. While it serves patients and families who are in the Care Center, it is also a full-service restaurant open to the public. Proceeds from both Spoons and Heirlooms support the programs of HopeWest. Volunteer Services - People with a passion for helping others make our mission possible. More than 1080 volunteers gave 80,417 hours of time in 2025, adding a value of 38.5 full time equivalents (FTEs). Gifts of time are as unique as those who contribute. Volunteers change our world in so many ways. Through holding the hands of patients in need, providing art and music therapy to patients, supporting kids coping with grief, beautifying our gardens, creating a one-of-a-kind shopping experience…
$4,516,049 spent$3,146,057 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $62,056,043.
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 $37M to $45M (+22%).
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.
5% of HopeWest’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Monika Tuell
Chair / Board Member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $665k → $460k.
11 of 58 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.
From the IRS filings of HopeWest’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
HopeWest has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
55% 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 HopeWest.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 40% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 46% · 2022 51% · 2023 46% — 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
44% of HopeWest's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
73% of HopeWest's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HopeWest holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 31 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HopeWest
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HopeWest: 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 HopeWest?
- HopeWest (Colorado) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,881,730 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,774,046). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HopeWest have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $5,881,730 in grants to HopeWest, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HopeWest?
- WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,774,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HopeWest 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 58 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