Colorado · Nonprofit
TEENS INC
TEENS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,834,637 to it, the largest being LINCOLN HILLS CARES FOUNDATION ($2,858,063). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Teens Inc does
Mission
Teens, inc. Supports, educates, and empowers youth and their families to make healthy choices and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - since september 2002, teens, inc. Has offered an alternative high school program, chinook west, to area youth who are at risk or have already dropped out. Chinook west's mission is to support and promote each student's educational goals and life aspirations. Upon graduation, chinook west students are prepared to make responsible choices about emotional and personal well-being and have the life and academic skills to accomplish their goals. In september 2015, teens, inc. Began administering the secondary and post secondary education programming at lookout mountain youth service center - the largest youth corrections facility in the state. Lookout academy serves 148 incarcerated boys. The contract to administer lookout academy is self-sustaining with the colorado division of youth services. Since 2019, teens, inc. Has run a preschool for 2.5 - 5 year olds, new explorers learning center.
$849,951 spent$517,093 earned by the program18% of program spendingYouth employment - Teens Inc employment programs are designed to help youth learn marketable skills, fill a community need, and aid each teen's personal growth. Teens, inc. Employment opportunities provide teens with role models, mentoring, and structure that help them through the turbulence that often accompanies adolesdcence. Teens, inc. Has expanded its youth employment program and employs over 100 youth each year in 4 different employment programs. To participate in any Teens Inc. Employment programs, youth employees must be in school or actively working toward their degree.
$883,376 spent$282,685 earned by the program19% of program spendingOutdoor leadership-after school rock climbing program and summer leadership retreats ranging from 5-12 days that build life and leadership skills in youth participants recreation - no cost teen center open 15 hours/week during the school year and 32 hours during the summer. Provides a safe and educational environment where youth can recreate, utilize computers, prepare food and build relationships with non-parent adult role models. Teens, inc. Also offers drop in play for youth 0-11.
$253,075 spent$7,578 earned by the program5% of program spendingCommunity initiatives teens, inc. Has two community initiatives. 1)a prevention coalition that utilizes an evidence based process aimed at reducing substance abuse among youth. 2) a social emotional learning initiative that implements and evidence based skill building curriculum at the nederland elementary school.
$2,788,602 spent$2,611,367 earned by the program58% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,775,004.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.9M to $5.9M (+101%).
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 16% · 2020 2% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% · 2024 17% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of TEENS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $567k → $688k.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 TEENS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
TEENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 TEENS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 84% · 2019 79% · 2020 19% · 2021 76% · 2022 28% · 2023 63% — 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 TEENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
85% of TEENS 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. $827k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TEENS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TEENS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $56k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$56k
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 TEENS 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEENS 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 TEENS INC?
- TEENS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,834,637 to it, the largest being LINCOLN HILLS CARES FOUNDATION ($2,858,063). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,834,637 in grants to TEENS INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEENS INC?
- LINCOLN HILLS CARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,858,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEENS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 35 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