Colorado · Nonprofit
Sober Apartment Living CO
Sober Apartment Living CO (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,172,845 to it, the largest being DANIELS FUND ($450,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Sober Apartment Living CO does
Mission
The mission of sober apartment living, co. Is to provide the lifestyle, support, and resources for a successful transition from addiction recovery to an independent life of sobriety, contentment, and productivity, thus creating an embracing community where individuals are not just surviving but thriving.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sober apartment living, co. (sal) was founded upon the premise that individuals who have successfully completed a rehabilitation program improve their odds of achieving lasting drug and/or alcohol recovery by transitioning to an intensely supportive sober living environment, one that looks and feels like the "real world." sal is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides this exact solution: independent-living apartment complexes complemented with an array of support resources. Our affordable apartment-style, sober-living setting not only allows residents to gain strength, confidence, and conviction to overcome their daily challenges, but sal also helps prepare them for lifelong sobriety. Sal is designed to provide onsite assistance and support to help those in recovery reduce the potential for relapse, including assistance with job placement and career development. Although we are not a rehab, therapy program, or clinical service provider, we understand that sustained sobriety is a journey. We appreciate the trust our residents and their therapists, healthcare providers, and friends and family members put in us to support this worthy pursuit.
$2,114,465 spent$1,578,902 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,114,465.
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 2020 to 2021, from $293k to $8.9M (+2942%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of Sober Apartment Living CO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Craig Zoellner
Executive director / treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $23k → $138k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Sober Apartment Living CO’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
Sober Apartment Living CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 Sober Apartment Living CO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2019 64% · 2020 36% · 2021 73% · 2022 80% · 2023 36% — 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
30% of Sober Apartment Living CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 Sober Apartment Living CO's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Sober Apartment Living CO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Sober Apartment Living CO
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sober Apartment Living CO?
- Sober Apartment Living CO (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,172,845 to it, the largest being DANIELS FUND ($450,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sober Apartment Living CO have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,172,845 in grants to Sober Apartment Living CO, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sober Apartment Living CO?
- DANIELS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sober Apartment Living CO 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 14 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