Colorado · Nonprofit
ONE GOOD TURN
ONE GOOD TURN (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,565,570 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($4,891,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $413k
What One Good Turn does
Mission
Our mission is to help low income, marginalized members of the community to achieve long term self-sufficiency by providing access to resources such as food, housing, job training, and mental health/wellness services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cafe 180, recognizing our universal appetite for delicious, nourishing food and social connectedness, is dedicated to eliminating hunger and social barriers associated with food by feeding all people regardless of their ability to pay, in a dignified and respectful manner. Starting in 2018, cafe 180 also began offering paid work experiences through jobs 180. Apprentices gain experience in a full service kitchen cooking and preparing various entrees. Apprentices also can gain experience in customer service and training volunteers.
$832,561 spentof which $182,185 as grants$203,134 earned by the program86% of program spendingHearhear counseling believes that mental health should be affordable and accessible to all populations. Our hope is that as a staff community we can work together to provide mental health services at an affordable rate, while still fairly compensating the therapists we partner with.
$121,263 spent$6,242 earned by the program12% of program spendingHousing 180 creates affordable housing options in englewood and littleton for hardworking people who struggle to find a place to call home. We work with local landlords, nonprofits, church leaders, community members, and cafe 180 to help vulnerable yet capable people find transitional housing. We promote dignified exchanges, providing resources to people in exchange for their time and/or talents.
$19,293 spentof which $6,450 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $973,117.
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 $1.3M to $348k (−74%).
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 11% · 2021 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of ONE GOOD TURN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sarah Lesyinski
Executive director & co-board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.0M.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 ONE GOOD TURN’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
ONE GOOD TURN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 ONE GOOD TURN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 79% · 2021 63% · 2022 98% · 2023 57% — 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
50% of ONE GOOD TURN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
66% of ONE GOOD TURN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.6M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M 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
ONE GOOD TURN runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like ONE GOOD TURN
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Counseling 180 LLC · disregarded
- Housing 180 LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONE GOOD TURN: 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 ONE GOOD TURN?
- ONE GOOD TURN (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,565,570 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($4,891,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ONE GOOD TURN have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $7,565,570 in grants to ONE GOOD TURN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE GOOD TURN?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,891,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE GOOD TURN 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 13 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