Colorado · Nonprofit
SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION
SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,876,108 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,362,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Serenity Recovery Connection does
Mission
To strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer and family support, public education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our health care/outreach program collaborates with health institutions in el paso, teller, and fremont, forming key partnerships with set clinic, fountain valley health clinic, and marion house. In fremont county, src collaborates with commonspirit, loaves and fishes, and christ first ministries and other healthcare clinics. These strategic alliances enable us to extend our reach and provide tailored support within the framework of established healthcare and other networks.
$567,038 spent$52,075 earned by the program39% of program spendingSrc's justice coaches walk side by side with those who might be going through a court case, dhs case, parole, probation or a community corrections sentence to provide unmatched emotional support, shared experience, and a continuum of care through resource navigation and uniquely tailored recovery coaching. Additionally, Serenity Recovery Connection offers peer recovery coaching services to those who are currently incarcerated. Src justice coaches are living in sustained recovery and have navigated and successfully discharged the judicial system. Our justice coaches have completed additional certifications in "jordan forensics peer coaching," ensuring they are equipped with the most advanced tools to meet the unique needs of justice-impacted recoverees.
$274,249 spent$120,210 earned by the program19% of program spendingSrc's front office program combines peer support for walk-ins, along with a robust volunteer and internship program. Our dedicated coaches provide telephone recovery support for any individual who does not fall into the healthcare or justice program. Serenity Recovery Connection partners with the pikes peak workforce center and goodwill re-hire to provide extended paid training to src volunteers and those interested in learning about substance use disorder. Interested persons must interview with src and qualify with one of the internship partnerships. The paid training opportunity is typically 10-11 weeks. Participants gain hands-on practical experience that highlights the competencies of a peer recovery coach. Serenity Recovery Connection is expanding our peer coach internship program, with funding from bha. The peer coach internship program is a paid 500-hour internship that provides all of the training and hours needed to obtain the certified peer and family specialist (cpfs) certification used to work as a peer coach in colorado.
$316,060 spent22% of program spendingStatewide virtual and in-person training for individuals to become peer recovery coaches (prc). Additional higher-level training includes forensic, healthcare, and peer coach supervision are offered for professionals, community members and prcs. All training is approved for the colorado peer and family specialist credential from copa and the nationally certified peer recovery support specialist credential from naadac. Specialized, advanced, and professional development training are applicable for continuing education and recertification.
$280,892 spent$146,200 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,438,239.
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 2021 to 2022, from $691k to $3.3M (+371%).
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 39% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 16% · 2024 45% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION’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
Sheri Trahern
CEO
Board chair
Dr Robin Johnson
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $72k → $273k.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION’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
SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 91% · 2019 65% · 2020 29% · 2021 76% · 2022 67% · 2023 27% — 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
47% of SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION has grown faster than three-quarters 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 SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $599k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$599k
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 SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION?
- SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,876,108 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,362,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,876,108 in grants to SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,362,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERENITY RECOVERY CONNECTION 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 27 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