Colorado · Nonprofit
KIDS CROSSING
KIDS CROSSING (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,315 to it, the largest being TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ($99,251). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Kids Crossing does
Mission
Kids Crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. Our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Kids Crossing licenses foster homes to care for kids, including maintaining files for those homes and performing monthly checks. Homes are located in the denver, colorado springs, and pueblo areas. In 2024, we cared for 255 children and youth.
$6,006,385 spentof which $3,788,565 as grants64% of program spendingFamily preservation is an in-home, community-based service aimed at keeping children in the home. All family preservation workers are trained in tbri and conflict/crisis resolution. They are skilled in working with youth, exhibiting a wide range of difficult behaviors as well as problem-sexualized behaviors. Treatment is strength-based and focuses on the individual and the entire family unit. Our life skills program is aimed at helping individuals build skills and connect to resources. Life skill workers can assist clients with parenting skills, job searching and interviewing skills, improving social skills, and building connections to resources in their family/support system and the community. In 2024, we served 212 clients.
$1,278,629 spentof which $147,406 as grants$1,216,314 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe clinic offers an array of services for children, teens, adults, and families to meet varying treatment needs. Treatment is trauma-responsive, strength-based, and addresses the entire family system. All our therapists are trained in emdr. We also offer neurofeedback and services for juveniles court-ordered to somb services. We work hard at communicating closely with parents/guardians and other team members involved with a youth and/or family. In 2024, we served 304 clients.
$1,060,660 spent$742,910 earned by the program11% of program spendingGroundbreakers is a therapeutic work program for adolescents in colorado springs. Groundbreakers uses a cutting-edge curriculum to combine neuroscience, social-emotional health, and work ethic development to provide healing and training for a productive life. Youth generally spend 6-9 months in the program and have 16 contact hours per week. There is an internship and work placement for youth who have completed the first phase of the program or who already have work experience and need help finding employment. In 2024, we served 204 youth.
$897,256 spent$1,281,943 earned by the program10% of program spendingConnect for succes, our educational advocacy program, is an in-school education advocacy and support program for foster parents and children struggling in the education system. We offer one-on-one tutoring for youth of all ages and abilities. Tutoring can take place in person or over telehealth. Our tutoring focuses on regulating the brain and nervous system and utilizes playful engagement and connection to increase felt safety creating a fun and optimal learning environment. A further focus is on executive functioning skill practice to develop new neural pathways to learning. In 2024, we served 57 children and youth.
$193,054 spent$259,903 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,435,984.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.5M to $3.6M (+46%).
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 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 86% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of KIDS CROSSING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
William L Oesterle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $50k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 KIDS CROSSING’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
KIDS CROSSING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 KIDS CROSSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 95% · 2022 78% · 2023 54% — 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
75% of KIDS CROSSING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
KIDS CROSSING draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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
KIDS CROSSING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like KIDS CROSSING
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS CROSSING: 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 KIDS CROSSING?
- KIDS CROSSING (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,315 to it, the largest being TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ($99,251). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS CROSSING have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $131,315 in grants to KIDS CROSSING, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS CROSSING?
- TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $99,251 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS CROSSING 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 10 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