Colorado · Nonprofit
THE DELORES PROJECT
THE DELORES PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,841,843 to it, the largest being COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ($1,352,066). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Delores Project does
Mission
The Delores Project provides safe, comfortable shelter and personalized services for unaccompanied women and transgender individuals experiencing homelessness. We also work to end homelessness by advocating for housing solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides low-barrier, housing-focused shelter services in a 50 bed facility. Shelter guests receive case management based on a housing-first model with support from a housing navigator to assist the guest in securing appropriate, long-term housing. The organization provides rehoused individuals with at least 12 months of continued care case management, including several months of rental assistance. The organization also provides 35 one-bedroom supportive housing units with on-site wrap around services to ensure success in housing retention and self-sufficiency. Fiscal year 2025 brought both challenges and triumphs. The need for safe, dignified shelter and housing services has continued to grow, and thanks to your generous support, we have risen to meet it. Together, we provided 17,500 nights of shelter, served 23,866 meals, and supported hundreds of individuals on their path toward stability and housing. Every statistic represents a life touched and a story of resilience, healing, and hope. We also ended the year financially sound, with healthy reserves, as we move into times of uncertainty with federal funding.at The Delores Project, we believe that housing is a…
$2,705,680 spent$87,927 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,705,680.
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 $1.5M to $2.4M (+67%).
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 40% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 33% · 2022 39% · 2023 43% · 2024 46% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE DELORES PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Emily Wheeland
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $308k → $942k.
14 of 69 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 THE DELORES PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
THE DELORES PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 THE DELORES PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 19% · 2019 31% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% — 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 THE DELORES PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
81% of THE DELORES PROJECT's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE DELORES PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE DELORES PROJECT
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 THE DELORES PROJECT: 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 DELORES PROJECT?
- THE DELORES PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,841,843 to it, the largest being COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ($1,352,066). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DELORES PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $8,841,843 in grants to THE DELORES PROJECT, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DELORES PROJECT?
- COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS is the largest funder on record, with $1,352,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DELORES PROJECT 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 69 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