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HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC

HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,579,336 to it, the largest being The Patten-Davis Foundation ($4,065,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$38M
Funders on record
71
Grants received
$6.6M
Net assets
$62M
31/71 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Hospice of Metro Denver Inc does

Mission

To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The denver hospice provides end of life care through palliative and hospice services. Hospice care is delivered by an interdisciplinary team to include a physician, nurse, social work and chaplains to patients with a terminal diagnosis and a prognosis of six months or less to live. Palliative care is provided to those facing serious illness to optimize quality of life. Patients may have medicare, medicaid, commercial insurance or may be under or un-insured. The denver hospice is accredited by achc (accreditation commission for health care).

    $27,572,613 spent$35,791,996 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,572,613.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43M) Expenses 100 ($42M) Net assets 100 ($37M)2018 Revenue 91 ($39M) Expenses 88 ($37M) Net assets 103 ($38M)2019 Revenue 106 ($45M) Expenses 86 ($36M) Net assets 131 ($49M)2020 Revenue 87 ($37M) Expenses 94 ($39M) Net assets 128 ($48M)2021 Revenue 91 ($39M) Expenses 82 ($34M) Net assets 145 ($54M)2022 Revenue 81 ($35M) Expenses 77 ($32M) Net assets 140 ($52M)2023 Revenue 91 ($39M) Expenses 85 ($36M) Net assets 155 ($58M)2024 Revenue 90 ($38M) Expenses 90 ($38M) Net assets 166 ($62M)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (90)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $42M to $55M (+29%).

$44M
$42M
$55M
$60M
$65M
$63M
$70M
$74M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$669k
’17
$1.7M
’18
$9.0M
’19
−$2.4M
’20
$4.6M
’21
$2.6M
’22
$3.5M
’23
$634k
’24
2.3
months of
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

Tim J Bowen

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Brad Baumgartner

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2831242018192122
Joined·+12+6+1+3+4+8+7
No longer listed·91355366
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 22 funders, grant income fell $263k → $222k.

11 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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

HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC.

62%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 23% · 2019 89% · 2020 80% · 2021 22% · 2022 39% · 2023 38% — 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

36% of HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 26%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Comfort Bridge Dba Care Synergy · exempt
  • Pathways Hospice · exempt
  • Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc · exempt
  • Colorado Visiting Nurse Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC?
HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,579,336 to it, the largest being The Patten-Davis Foundation ($4,065,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC have?
IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $6,579,336 in grants to HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC?
The Patten-Davis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,065,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 71 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