Colorado · Nonprofit
Mental Health Center of Denver
Mental Health Center of Denver (Colorado) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,561,895 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($2,071,256). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $76M
What Mental Health Center of Denver does
Mission
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wellpower was founded in 1989 as the community mental health center serving the people of denver. Over the past three decades, our organization has grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of our communities. We added a range of new programs, including ones developed and piloted as the first in the nation, and expanded our workforce from a few dozen to over 900 staff. We are national leaders in behavioral health. Our approach to serving our communities - meeting people where they are, serving those who have been given up on by everyone else, continuously developing new and better ways of helping people thrive - is based on the belief that we can, and must, change the landscape of behavioral health in the state of colorado. Our mission: we empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support. Each year, we provide treatment, prevention, and crisis services to more than 20,000 people at our 35 sites and at nearly 200 additional community locations. We reach an additional 40,000-50,000 people through consultation and outreach services and community trainings. We offer a range of psychiatric…
$63,935,623 spent$78,065,881 earned by the program57% of program spendingThe dahlia campus for health and well-being is an award-winning and innovative 46,000 square foot center with classrooms, community and therapy space, one of the area's largest aquaponics greenhouses and four acres of garden and farm space. The campus was developed to address the needs of the neighborhood to allow community members of all ages to connect, learn new skills, and find supports needed to increase their health and well-being. Dahlia campus provides access to fresh produce and healthy protein from an urban farm and aquaponics greenhouse. We partner with community organizations to offer services such as a food pantry, pediatric dentistry and preschool that allow the community to thrive. Dahlia campus features an inclusive preschool, a day treatment school, and community events to promote well-being. Rightstart for infant mental health is a mental health program for pregnant women and families with children ages birth to 5 years. Emerson st. For teens and young adults provides a supportive community for teens and young adults ages 15-26 seeking connection and belonging. El centro de las familias provides bilingual (spanish and english) mental health services to adults,…
$20,435,576 spent$21,318,436 earned by the program18% of program spendingNextchapter teaches professional skills, provides career assessments and matches people with denver area businesses who are looking for dependable and motivated employees. The program also offers computer classes; a paid culinary training program; art studio instruction; music education; college support, ged classes and vocational skills training; and an array of fitness, nutrition, social, spiritual and recreational classes. Our resource center helps people of all ages meet their basic needs through donations of essentials, from clothing for job interviews to food and toys for their families. More than 600 households find housing that meets their needs and expectations through voucher programs. And we offer these homes in conjunction with a comprehensive array of clinical and supportive services to meet the individual needs of the people we serve, including: psychiatry, financial coaching and support, alternatives to hospitalization, employment assistance, medical care, substance use counseling, acquisition of public benefits, support for family life and engagement with activities of daily living. Services are designed to create a strong link between stable housing and effective…
$16,056,205 spent$17,212,171 earned by the program14% of program spendingWellpower operates a range of housing programs with different levels of support: 14 residential treatment homes with programs that teach life skills, offer group treatment and vary in length ranging from four to 90 days, with longer stays possible depending on need. Nine apartment buildings provide an opportunity to live independently as part of a wider community, often for the first time, in units with onsite property management. More than 1,000 tenant based housing vouchers for long-term stable housing. Permanent supportive housing model, a nationally recognized approach to ending homelessness that combines housing with wraparound services. Part of denver's social impact bond (sib) initiative, sanderson apartments is the first of its kind to use the principles of trauma informed design in its architecture. Sheridan on 10th, wellpower's newest supportive housing site, builds on the success of the sanderson model.
$11,061,613 spent$13,768,129 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,489,017.
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 2020 to 2021, from $98M to $111M (+13%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of Mental Health Center of Denver’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Carl Clark MD
President and CEO (Retired 12/31/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $169k → $1.3M.
12 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Colorado Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Mental Health Center of Denver raised.
From the IRS filings of Mental Health Center of Denver’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
Mental Health Center of Denver leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% 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
89% 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 Mental Health Center of Denver.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 41% · 2019 31% · 2020 18% · 2021 60% · 2022 57% · 2023 71% — 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
16% of Mental Health Center of Denver's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
92% of Mental Health Center of Denver's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Mental Health Center of Denver holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Mental Health Center of Denver
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
77% 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 11 related entities
- Sanderson LLC · disregarded
- Sheridan Supportive Housing GP LLC · disregarded
- Sabin Group Inc · exempt
- Sabin Group I · exempt
- Park East House Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver?
- Mental Health Center of Denver (Colorado) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,561,895 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($2,071,256). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mental Health Center of Denver have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $4,561,895 in grants to Mental Health Center of Denver, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mental Health Center of Denver?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,071,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mental Health Center of Denver 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 53 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