Colorado · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC
METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,379,715 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($684,849). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc does
Mission
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. Vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. Values: committed to core values that bring people home: - inclusive. Honoring the dignity of people with personal experiences of homelessness as partners in identifying solutions to homelessness. - collaborative. Harnessing the power of collaboration to achieve systemic solutions to homelessness. - innovative. Fostering flexible and creative responses to the complexity of homelessness. - informed. Using data to address inequity, guide decision making, allocate resources, and improve accountability. - bold. Providing courageous leadership that honors our commitment to end homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mdhi is the metro denver continuum of care (coc), which is a regional system that coordinates services and housing for people experiencing homelessness. This work includes street outreach, emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, prevention and diversion and permanent supportive housing. Mdhi works closely with each county in our continuum (adams, arapahoe, boulder, broomfield, denver, douglas, and jefferson), building a homeless crisis response system aimed at getting people stably housed as quickly as possible. That's the core of what we believe - housing is the solution to homelessness. Mdhi leads the process for the annual hud coc nofa application. Each year mdhi convenes a series of meetings for stakeholders to identify local service gaps and funding priorities. Identified priorities are used to develop a comprehensive application to the u.s. Department of housing and urban development (hud). Sinces its inception, mdhi has brought in over 100 million in grants for the denver metropolitan area. Mdhi coordinates the efforts and coverage across our 7-county region, with coordinators from each area and additional supports from service agencies, to conduct the…
$4,018,953 spent$341,291 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,018,953.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.7M to $1.7M (−37%).
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 81% · 2018 71% · 2022 86% · 2023 79% · 2024 73% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Tracy Brooks
Cpc chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $197k → $452k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC’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
METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
100% 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 METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 58% · 2019 41% · 2020 51% · 2021 37% · 2022 52% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
61% of METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC'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 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
METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$17.4M
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 METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC?
- METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,379,715 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($684,849). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,379,715 in grants to METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $684,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN DENVER HOMELESS INITIATIVE 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 12 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