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MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC

MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,174,547 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($1,573,454). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$1.4M
26/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc does

Mission

Maria droste services of colorado improves lives by providing high quality counseling services to adults, children and families, regardless of their ability to pay.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The options program at maria droste counseling center provides in person and telehealth psychotherapy to individuals across the lifespan, as well as families, couples, and groups, regardless of wealth or ability to pay. This program utilizes licensed providers from the therapist group, postgraduate fellows, as well as clinical interns to provide quality, comprehensive outpatient behavioral health services for a variety of presenting concerns and diagnoses. In 2022, the options program also partnered with a number of community organizations including the denver actors fund, colorado village collaborative, and the yess institute to provide individual therapy to the members of these community-based organizations.

    $1,060,354 spent$923,729 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  2. Children first assists children and families facing adverse circumstances by providing counseling, mentoring, and support at more than 18 metro denver pre-k-12 schools. To ensure that youth with the highest behavioral health needs and decreased access to resources receive care, most mdcc partner schools have high percentages of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and/or are english language learners. Counselors help children age three and up who are in crisis, at risk for school failure, and/or need more consistent and individualized attention than school counselors can offer.

    $863,993 spent
    44% of program spending
  3. Integrated care - we value socially responsible partnerships and work to colocate in places where people live, work, and receive services to reduce barriers to care. Our newest partner, women's bean project, also recognizes the very real barriers that individuals face in efforts to change their circumstances, and addresses this by providing a robust transitional employment program that includes job coaching, onsite healthcare, financial literacy, and more. Together, we are able to offer therapy sessions to women in their program free of charge while they are on the job, ensuring that stress and trauma don't get in the way of their success.

    $39,272 spent
    2% of program spending
  4. Our survivors mental health program provides mental health counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation to survivors of trauma, including sexual assault, childhood physical abuse, and domestic violence. The goals of our survivors mental health program are to: 1. Provide financially accessible, culturally competent, and comprehensive care to survivors of trauma with serious mental health concerns 2. To eliminate or significantly reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms over time 3. To achieve high ratings of client satisfaction 4. And serve as a resource to other community victim service providers regarding mental health issues for survivors of violence this program specifically focuses on providing support to survivors of trauma who are uninsured, underinsured, have unaffordable annual deductibles or copays, do not have medicare or medicaid, are ineligible for crime victim compensation, or are otherwise unable to afford the cost of services. Smhp prevents individuals from falling through the cracks of the existing mental health and victim services systems and is designed specifically to address post-traumatic stress, severe depression, anxiety, addiction, and suicidal…

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,963,619.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($217k)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.6M) Expenses 115 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($217k)2019 Revenue 111 ($1.6M) Expenses 118 ($1.6M) Net assets 104 ($225k)2020 Revenue 144 ($2.1M) Expenses 125 ($1.7M) Net assets 282 ($611k)2021 Revenue 194 ($2.8M) Expenses 184 ($2.5M) Net assets 431 ($933k)2022 Revenue 259 ($3.7M) Expenses 185 ($2.5M) Net assets 997 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 264 ($3.8M) Expenses 208 ($2.8M) Net assets 1439 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 183 ($2.6M) Expenses 258 ($3.5M) Net assets 1050 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 128 ($1.9M) Expenses 203 ($2.7M) Net assets 639 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (203)Net assets (639)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $3.1M (+172%).

$292k
$323k
$328k
$892k
$1.1M
$3.1M
$4.0M
$3.0M
$1.9M
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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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 18% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

45% of MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$93k
’17
$558
’18
$8k
’19
$386k
’20
$322k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$1.0M
’23
−$843k
’24
−$890k
’25
4.8
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed151616171614131013
Joined·+5+3+8+4+3+5+4+6
No longer listed·43755673
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $132k → $1.1M.

6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC.

38%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 42% · 2019 28% · 2020 27% · 2021 43% · 2022 62% · 2023 62% — 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

48% of MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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

87% of MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
IL
MI
IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
DE
AZ
TX

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. $967k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−48% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 20%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
100%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC?
MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,174,547 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($1,573,454). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,174,547 in grants to MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC?
CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,573,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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