Colorado · Nonprofit
SURE PASSAGE
SURE PASSAGE (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,620,261 to it, the largest being THE HOPPE FOUNDATION ($1,592,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $123k
What Sure Passage does
Mission
Providing grants to faith-based organizations involved in international development for least-reached poor communities; Hosting life-transition workshops and leadership coaching for individuals & groups; and Guiding Family Experiences (camps, adventure trips, and theater) for youth development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided economic and health education for people in least-reached poor communities.
$662 spent10% of program spendingConducted coaching on life skills, spiritual formation, and leadership for individuals & groups.
$1,433 spent21% of program spendingHosted family adventure and summer theater for youth development in Colorado.
$4,683 spent69% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,778.
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 2019 to 2020, from $61k to $126k (+107%).
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.
58% of SURE PASSAGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Board chair
Gentry Gardner
President & Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $476k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SURE PASSAGE’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
SURE PASSAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
SURE PASSAGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SURE PASSAGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SURE PASSAGE
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.
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 SURE PASSAGE: 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 SURE PASSAGE?
- SURE PASSAGE (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,620,261 to it, the largest being THE HOPPE FOUNDATION ($1,592,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURE PASSAGE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,620,261 in grants to SURE PASSAGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SURE PASSAGE?
- THE HOPPE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,592,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURE PASSAGE 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 4 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