Colorado · Nonprofit
PROJECT SAFEGUARD
PROJECT SAFEGUARD (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,313 to it, the largest being PROJECT SAFEGUARD FOUNDATION ($936,260). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Project Safeguard does
Mission
Project Safeguard empowers and partners with people who have experienced gender-based violence, helping them navigate a course of survivor-driven justice through expert, trauma-informed legal advocacy and representation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, psg legal services provided services to 648 individuals with more than 2,913 contacts. 96% were individuals impacted by domestic violence, 3% were individuals impacted by sexual assault, and 1% were individuals impacted by stalking/other. Staff attorneys provided unbundled legal services to 123 clients with more than 5,676 contacts. Pro-bono attorneys provided assistance to more than 123 psg clients through english and spanish divorce and custody clinics. Services provided by non-attorney legal staff included safety planning, assistance in petitioning the court for civil protection orders, introduction to the civil legal system, accompaniment to court hearings, and referral to other community resources. Services provided by attorneys included representation or assistance with protection order and/or domestic relations matters
$1,168,277 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,168,277.
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 $549k to $1.3M (+138%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 87% · 2024 88% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PROJECT SAFEGUARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% 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
Jody Curl
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $26k → $120k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PROJECT SAFEGUARD’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
PROJECT SAFEGUARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PROJECT SAFEGUARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 80% · 2019 43% · 2020 32% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 48% — 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
86% of PROJECT SAFEGUARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
95% of PROJECT SAFEGUARD's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k 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
PROJECT SAFEGUARD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT SAFEGUARD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Justice$750k
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 PROJECT SAFEGUARD
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
78% 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 PROJECT SAFEGUARD: 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 PROJECT SAFEGUARD?
- PROJECT SAFEGUARD (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,313 to it, the largest being PROJECT SAFEGUARD FOUNDATION ($936,260). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT SAFEGUARD have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,379,313 in grants to PROJECT SAFEGUARD, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT SAFEGUARD?
- PROJECT SAFEGUARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $936,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT SAFEGUARD 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