Colorado · Nonprofit
Mariposa Center for Safety
Mariposa Center for Safety (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,219,762 to it, the largest being CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND ($314,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Mariposa Center for Safety does
Mission
To empower survivors of domestic violence, family abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking through increasing self-sufficiency and self-worth, education, prevention, victim advocacy, and by offering emergency services, provisions, and shelter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mariposa Center for Safety's domestic violence services staff members work to comprehensively meet the unique needs of each individual who seeks assistance. Regular one-on-one meetings with the case manager are the starting point to rebuilding lives and helping those who are impacted most by domestic violence. The shelter director assists with intakes for residents, provides court accompaniment, assists with protection order modifications, and refers clients to agencies in the community for services such as document procurement, temporary assistance for needy families (TANF), and other community resources that they may need. For those whose circumstances do not require that they reside in the shelter, the shelter director or case manager refers the client to other agencies in the community who can better meet their needs. For those who call the hotline to speak with a domestic violence advocate about their circumstances, that phone call is a service provided to them directly by the Mariposa Center for Safety.
$503,429 spent37% of program spendingThe Community program offers educational classes on domestic violence to local government, business, and community partners within Pueblo County.
$467,928 spentof which $37,836 as grants34% of program spendingTeresa's Place provides a safe, secure, and culturally accessible place for parents to visit or exchange their children when domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, or stalking has taken place within the family. The building's unique set up requires the perpetrator to enter on the west side of the building and the victim on the east side. There are staggered arrival and departure times to ensure no contact occurs between the two parties. This allows both parties to feel safe and comfortable when entering the location. We believe everyone has the right to safety. Furthermore, these services provided by Teresa's Place help to ensure that further family violence does not occur and helps to end the cycle of violence within that family since the parties completely avoid contact.
$393,624 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,364,981.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+20%).
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 79% · 2021 64% · 2022 53% · 2023 67% · 2024 64% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Mariposa Center for Safety’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Nicole Ferguson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $53k → $81k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Mariposa Center for Safety’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
Mariposa Center for Safety has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
78% 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 Mariposa Center for Safety.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 80% · 2019 92% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 50% · 2023 74% — broadly stable.
“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
17% of Mariposa Center for Safety's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
93% of Mariposa Center for Safety's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k 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
Mariposa Center for Safety has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Mariposa Center for Safety receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
- Department of Justice$1.1M
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 Mariposa Center for Safety
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
100%
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 Mariposa Center for Safety: 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 Mariposa Center for Safety?
- Mariposa Center for Safety (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,219,762 to it, the largest being CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND ($314,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mariposa Center for Safety have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,219,762 in grants to Mariposa Center for Safety, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mariposa Center for Safety?
- CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $314,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mariposa Center for Safety 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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