Colorado · Nonprofit
Life-Line Colorado
Life-Line Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,958 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($1,263,322). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $638k
What Life-Line Colorado does
Mission
Life-Line implemented processes beginning with the Department of Corrections in-reach and transitioning to community re-entry Tribe Recovery Homes, Half-Way Houses, etc.. The processes implemented has allowed Life-Line to begin intaking individuals within the Department of Corrections, becoming a part of the parole plan, and seamlessly entering the recovery housing through Tribe Recovery Homes allowing the individual to become a WAGEES Participant through Life-Line. Participants that are not transitioning to recovery housing, offered by Tribe Recovery Homes, intakes can be provided by in the Half-Way house where the Participants reside, or, anywhere the participants are granted to live while on parole. In addition, Life-Line offers the service of intake within the community where the individual identifies as a safe-zone and is comfortable. Life-Line has also been able to create and develop a streamlined process with TNT Construction for a Post-Secondary Certification Forklift Operator.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Life-line's successes are based upon each participant and programmatic objectives, program measures and outcomes and funders objectives, program measures and outcomes. Life-Line as an organization aims to address and resolve three basic problems within our community and surrounding systems: (1) Reduce the recidivism rate in regard to community reentry from Department of Corrections (DOC) and Department of Youth Services (DYS). (2) Reduce the violence amongst youth and interrupt the school to prison pipeline and (3) help teach and support individuals through coping and healing regarding mental health and addictions. Over the course of FY 2023 Life-Line of Colorado has established partnerships and collaborations with nearly 26 Denver Area Public Schools and over two dozen community-based agencies and non-profit organizations. In addition to the programs described below Life-Line hosted or supported the following events and/or activities at the Empowerment Center or in the immediate community: 1.Westwood National Night Out: 120 youth 2.Life Line Block Party/Back to School event 100 youth 3.Life Line Back to School Event 400 Students 4.Contemporary Learning Academy Back to School…
$1,761,646 spentof which $11,760 as grants$1,924,023 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,761,646.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $659k to $1.5M (+131%).
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: 2021 1% · 2023 16% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Life-Line Colorado’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Dennis Jeffery
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $308k → $168k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Life-Line Colorado’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
Life-Line Colorado leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Life-Line Colorado.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Life-Line Colorado's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Life-Line Colorado has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Life-Line Colorado
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Life-Line Colorado: 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 Life-Line Colorado?
- Life-Line Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,958 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($1,263,322). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Life-Line Colorado have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,536,958 in grants to Life-Line Colorado, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Life-Line Colorado?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,263,322 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Life-Line Colorado 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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