Colorado · Nonprofit
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,457,139 to it, the largest being Rose Community Foundation ($2,926,714). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Jewish Community Centers of Denver does
Mission
Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Participatory recreation offered a variety of physical education programs and activities for over 3,000 people of all ages.
$3,059,198 spent$3,831,279 earned by the program41% of program spendingCamps operating an on-site and off-site day camp, enrichment programs and an off-site residential camp for over 2,500 children.
$2,456,953 spent$1,685,434 earned by the program33% of program spendingEarly childhood education operated an on-site fully licensed childhood education center operated an on-site fully licensed childhood education center offering a variety of programs including day care for over 140 kids ages infant to 5 years and providing various other educational programs to over 700 children and parents.
$1,880,312 spent$1,791,430 earned by the program25% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,396,463.
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 2017 to 2018, from $28M to $12M (−55%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 21% · 2022 13% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Mike Sophir
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.4M.
19 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $237k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mizel Center for Arts and Culture). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 44% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% — 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
62% of JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER'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
81% of JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 72% 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. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
- Mizel Center for Arts and Culture · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,457,139 to it, the largest being Rose Community Foundation ($2,926,714). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $9,457,139 in grants to JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER?
- Rose Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,926,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER 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 43 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