Colorado · Nonprofit
TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME
TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME (Colorado) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,458,751 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,719,352). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home does
Mission
Tennyson center for children (tcc) is dedicated to helping children who have experienced severe abuse, neglect, and/or trauma so they can bravely, and safely, change their life's story. Tcc's trained professionals empower children and families by providing a child-centered, customized approach to healing through our community-based and day treatment school programs. The primary goal of all tcc programs is to reintegrate children back into safe families, supportive schools, and vibrant communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tennyson center's fully accredited therapeutic school and day treatment program provides 5- to 21- year-olds a holistic education that integrates social, emotional, behavioral and academic learning, helping students thrive in a supportive environment. Classrooms serve neurotypical students, as well as students with neurodiversity, such as autism or intellectual disabilities. Clinicians offer individual, group, and family therapy to students and their families.
$5,825,981 spent$5,080,654 earned by the program66% of program spendingCommunity based services provide intensive child and family therapy, parenting support, behavior management, and more for kids and families across colorado. Tennyson center brings these services directly to homes, schools, outpatient settings, or any other place where families can best work towards healing. Tennyson offers specialized services for a variety of groups including children with autism and other disabilities and parents with teens.
$1,476,913 spent$746,006 earned by the program17% of program spendingTennyson's residential program maintains a safe, nurturing environment for youth age 6 to 16, who qualify for the children's habilitation residential program (chrp) waiver. These services are licensed by the residential childcare facility (rccf) from the colorado department of human services (cdhs) and the health first colorado home and community based services - children's habilitation residential program. This program supports children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (idd) and co-occurring mental health diagnoses whose needs cannot be met in less intensive settings. Tennyson's trauma-informed care includes individual and family therapy, group sessions, and expressive therapies like gardening and art.
$1,578,613 spent$1,297,788 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,881,507.
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 2018 to 2019, from $15M to $18M (+21%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 2% · 2023 17% · 2024 9% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $383k → $1.2M.
21 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
91% 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 TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 19% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% — 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
39% of TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.9M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$65k
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 TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tennyson Property Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME?
- TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME (Colorado) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,458,751 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,719,352). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $8,458,751 in grants to TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,719,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME 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.
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 52 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