Colorado · Nonprofit
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,325,591 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,118,903). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Safehouse Denver Inc does
Mission
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. The agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to, emergency shelter, an extended stay facility, safety planning, individual counseling, support groups, case management and advocacy, court accompaniment, a 24-hour crisis and information line, and community education/prevention/engagement activities. Services are available through the non-residential counseling and advocacy center (the cac) as well as through the emergency shelter and extended stay facility. Safehouse denver is committed to increasing community awareness and accountability for the intervention in, and prevention of, domestic violence. Safehouse denver has a community engagement manager on staff to coordinate and implement activities which are designed to communicate critical information and resources to the community through health fairs,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The residential services program helps survivors avoid homelessness or returning to an abuser through two resources: the emergency shelter that provides safe, confidential housing, advocacy-based counseling, and basic needs for adults and children fleeing domestic violence; and the extended stay program (esp) for survivors who are out of immediate crisis but need more time to access housing and resources. Residents in both programs have regular contact with a domestic violence advocate to support them in achieving their self-determined goals for stability. Advocates support survivors in implementing safety plans so they can access employment, attend school, or use community resources. In addition to one-on-one work with their advocates, survivors have the opportunity to participate in support groups. Last fiscal year, the emergency shelter served 173 adults and 99 children with 5,890 nights of shelter. The emergency shelter was able to operate at full capacity again for the first time since the pandemic began in march 2020. For the third year in a row, 100% of residents in our extended stay program successfully moved onto stable housing conditions.
$1,005,179 spent$2,897 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe non-residential program at the cac supports adult and teen survivors of domestic violence who are not in need of emergency shelter or temporary housing. Services include individual advocacy-based domestic violence counseling, information and referrals, case management, and support groups. Cac clients can receive services in-person or via an encrypted video platform, giving clients safety and confidentiality. During the fiscal year ending march 31, 2025, 337 adult survivors received support as clients of the cac. An additional 495 adults were referred to safehouse denver and received domestic violence education, crisis intervention, and safety planning, although they did not complete an intake assessment to become clients. Cac advocates facilitated 26 survivor-led support groups. Through the youth-focused advocacy area of the organization, 1,530 youth were provided with education and support related to healthy relationships and early warning of intimate partner violence.
$792,052 spent39% of program spendingSafehouse denver's services to support children and youth are based on a family model that aims to build resilience in children affected by domestic violence. This is done through strong parent-child bonds that support healthy development in children and improved family outcomes. Through safe emergency housing, extended stay housing, individual and family counseling, support groups, and advocacy, safehouse denver provides families with programming that increases self-sufficiency and strengthens relationships between parents, children, and siblings. As a result, children have demonstrated improvements in problem-solving skills and expressing emotions; increased self-confidence; and more positive relationships. The 24/7 crisis and information line offers crisis intervention and information referral assistance. Over 2,330 calls were received from april 1, 2024, to march 31, 2025. Approximately 1,360 callers were referred to other facilities because safehouse denver was not able to serve them at the emergency shelter (due to being at full capacity). In 2023, we expanded our connection to the community to provide awareness and education on domestic violence to the general population.…
$243,490 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,040,721.
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 $3.7M to $5.5M (+49%).
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 25% · 2018 16% · 2019 27% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 28% · 2024 33% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC’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. 0 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
Jennifer Caruso Retired 72225
CEO
Board chair
Jill Petersen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $493k → $843k.
15 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
54% 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 SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 20% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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
48% of SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
71% of SAFEHOUSE DENVER 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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAFEHOUSE DENVER 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: 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 SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC?
- SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,325,591 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,118,903). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $6,325,591 in grants to SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,118,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFEHOUSE DENVER 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 114 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