Colorado · Nonprofit
Second Chance Center Inc
Second Chance Center Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,387,380 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($5,491,040). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Second Chance Center Inc does
Mission
Our goal is to help formerly incarcerated people transition to lives of success and fulfillment. We provide the formerly incarcerated, and their network, with education, resources, and support to successfully re-enter the community and cultivate a rewarding life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Second Chance Center (SCC) is to help formerly incarcerated individuals transition to lives of success and fulfillment. The individuals served by SCC often face significant barriers to stability, including mental illness, substance use disorders, trauma, limited employment history, and housing instability. Many individuals are released from incarceration with no stable housing, limited family support, and few resources to successfully reintegrate into the community.SCC provides a comprehensive reentry model that integrates care management, peer mentoring, behavioral health navigation, Continued on Schedule O...workforce development, and housing stabilization. At intake, client partners work with care managers to develop individualized life goals and service plans. SCC provides ongoing support to help individuals achieve stability, including access to basic needs such as food, clothing, transportation assistance, health care referrals, and employment services. SCC's model emphasizes "role-modeling possibilities," with many staff members having lived experience with the justice system and serving as mentors and guides for those navigating reentry.Stable housing is a…
$8,047,224 spentof which $1,086,687 as grants$2,002,241 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,047,224.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $9.4M to $22M (+134%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 10% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% · 2024 34% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Second Chance Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Damond McCready
Executive Director
Board chair
Cherie Mason
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $86k → $3.3M.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Second Chance Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Second Chance Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 Second Chance Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 33% · 2019 44% · 2020 38% · 2021 55% · 2022 22% · 2023 57% — 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
48% of Second Chance Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
88% of Second Chance Center 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. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Second Chance Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Second Chance Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.4M
- Department of Justice$744k
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 Second Chance Center 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Providence Heights LLLP · partnership
- Residence on Acoma LLLP · partnership
- Residence on Acoma GP LLC · corp_trust
- Providence Residences LLC · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Second Chance Center 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 Second Chance Center Inc?
- Second Chance Center Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,387,380 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($5,491,040). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Second Chance Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $14,387,380 in grants to Second Chance Center Inc, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Second Chance Center Inc?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,491,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Second Chance Center 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 46 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