Colorado · Nonprofit
MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE
MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,962,003 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($2,102,037). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Mile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse does
Mission
To bring a caring, seamless continuum of behavioral healthcare to the most vulnerable in our community - offering affordable care and housing services with focused programs to address life challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Behavioral health services: mhbhc is a dually licensed substance abuse and mental health disorder treatment provider with a continuum of care model that includes comprehensive community-based case management, evidence-based intake and assessments, residential treatment for women, specialized outpatient services, peer support, experiential therapy, and trauma-reduction interventions. Mhbhc partners with medical providers to ensure all qualified clients receive individualized medication assisted treatment (mat), basic primary healthcare services, and psychotropic medication access and management. Mhbhc's three-pronged care model provides all clients with the following: individual and group therapeutic interventions, case management, and coaching and support by trained peer specialists.
$4,822,739 spent$2,020,450 earned by the program74% of program spendingRe-entry services: mhbhc serves individuals in several community drug programs by providing abstinence monitoring, outpatient services, education, case management, and peer services.
$1,087,876 spent$153,526 earned by the program17% of program spendingLgbtq services: mhbhc provides culturally responsive behavioral health treatment services for the lgbtq communities of denver by addressing health disparities through education, advocacy, and treatment referrals and empowering these communities.
$600,177 spent$842,906 earned by the program9% of program spendingHousing services: mhbhc provides a transitional housing program in denver that accommodates the housing needs of unaccompanied homeless women who are simultaneously engaging in substance abuse and mental health treatment programming. The program is managed by a peer coach who also resides with the women in recovery. All residents stay rent free provided they maintain treatment.
$15,537 spent$35,260 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,526,329.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.7M to $10M (+35%).
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 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 57% · 2020 59% · 2021 48% · 2022 32% · 2023 45% · 2024 39% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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
Robert Dorshimer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $235k → $100k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE’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
MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 81% · 2019 94% · 2020 58% · 2021 79% · 2022 84% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“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
29% of MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
94% of MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k 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
MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.1M
- Department of Justice$1000k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$406k
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 MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Comitis Crisis Center · exempt
- Colfax Community Network Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE?
- MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,962,003 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($2,102,037). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,962,003 in grants to MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,102,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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