Colorado · Nonprofit
KARIS INC
KARIS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,342 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($347,789). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-633948
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Karis Inc does
Mission
Provide housing and assistance to homeless individuals, families, and teens who are moving agressively towards self-sufficiency
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency services which provides temporary safe shelter for homeless youth. Thehouse provides counseling, emotional support, and guidance to help them establish a stable and productive life situation.
$470,047 spent25% of program spendingTransitional living for establishing permanent and positive relationships, a full suite of mental health and physical health services, and follow-up services that extend well past the required 90 days.
$582,837 spent31% of program spendingStreet outreach meets the needs of two underserved populations; young adults aged 18-24 and those who identify as lgbtq.
$283,728 spent15% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing which provides voucher-based housing for youth and adults.
$534,528 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,871,140.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $0 (−100%).
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 48% · 2018 52% · 2019 46% · 2020 30% · 2021 69% · 2023 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $77k → $220k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 KARIS INC’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
KARIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
83% 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 KARIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 57% · 2019 28% · 2020 33% · 2021 29% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% — 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
57% of KARIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
79% of KARIS 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. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding KARIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.0M
- Department of Justice$1.2M
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 KARIS 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
79% 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 4 related entities
- Sojourners LLC · disregarded
- Karis Gp LLC · disregarded
- Karis Development LLC · partnership
- Karis Apartments Lllp · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KARIS INC: 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 KARIS INC?
- KARIS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,342 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($347,789). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KARIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,755,342 in grants to KARIS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KARIS INC?
- WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $347,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KARIS 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.
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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 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