Colorado · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY FIRM
THE COMMUNITY FIRM (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,489,344 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($3,650,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $102M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What The Community Firm does
Mission
The Community Firm dba community economic defense project (cedp) is a not-for profit organization established to provide social services, public benefits, and policy change. Our mission is to keep coloradans housed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Mortgage Assistance: In 2023, CEDP launched its mortgage assistance program, extending the assistance provided to prevent displacement.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Integrated financial assistance and household stability services: the organization offers a fund that provides emergency rental assistance to renters facing eviction or displacement. In partnership with state and local government emergency assistance programs, cedp qualifies renters facing eviction and displacement for benefits, and it issues quick, accurate financial assistance checks. Its emergency rental assistance program is designed to move faster than the eviction time line, with capabilities to qualify tenants for benefits and issue payments in less than 24 hours when needed to stabilize a household. Since july 2022, cedp has also managed the state of colorado's emergency intake system for renters facing displacement. This intake system answers tenant calls about the rental assistance program, features intake agents at courthouses across the state, and coordinates among service providers. Through this program, cedp makes referrals to its own eviction prevention and homelessness diversion programs, and coordinates service delivery with other service providers across the state for household stability services and other needed benefits and services. Services and other needed…
$50,068,152 spentof which $43,273,179 as grants$711,193 earned by the program78% of program spendingIn 2023, we launched a new program to expand the stabilizing services we offer to the community. Housing is a human right, and the loss of a home can lead to cycles of poverty that are exceedingly difficult to recover from. We are able to provide mortgage assistance for clients who are behind on payments based on the individual circumstances of each. Our team of caring navigators and lawyers are passionately committed to keeping our clients in their homes.
$11,887,784 spentof which $11,473,900 as grants19% of program spendingLegal aid: through ced law, the organization offers legal assistance to renters facing eviction in the state of colorado. Managed separately from the financial assistance and household stability services program, ced law provides legal assistance to coloradans facing eviction or struggling with consumer and housing debt burdens. Depending on client need, attorneys provide advice, limited assistance representation, or full-service legal representation. Ced law also manages legal aid clinics alongside community partners and in courthouses across the state.
$2,299,331 spentof which $103,927 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,255,267.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $6.7M to $24M (+252%).
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: 2021 92% · 2022 98% · 2023 95% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE COMMUNITY FIRM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $249k → $3.4M.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE COMMUNITY FIRM’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
THE COMMUNITY FIRM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 38% · 2021 57% · 2022 85% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of THE COMMUNITY FIRM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
55% of THE COMMUNITY FIRM's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $625k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE COMMUNITY FIRM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 crime & legal nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding THE COMMUNITY FIRM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.3M
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 THE COMMUNITY FIRM
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMUNITY FIRM: 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 THE COMMUNITY FIRM?
- THE COMMUNITY FIRM (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,489,344 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($3,650,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY FIRM have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $8,489,344 in grants to THE COMMUNITY FIRM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY FIRM?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY FIRM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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