Colorado · Nonprofit
The Reciprocity Collective
The Reciprocity Collective (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,060 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($248,500). 9 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
- $941k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $747k
- Net assets
- $137k
What The Reciprocity Collective does
Mission
Provides a pathway to community, health and housing resources, employment, and relationships that work together to support individuals experiencing homelessness in finding long-term stability & success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Roads to Recovery - Providing case management for the most complex cases; individuals who experience the intersection of repeated incarceration and justice involvements, substance abuse disorders, acute behavioral health problems, and homelessness. We meet with them at least once a week to provide transitional into permanent housing, food, clothing, transportation, cell phones and other basic needs. We also facilitate connecting them with medical, mental, behavioral health, and recovery services as well as joining healthy community groups and supports. When appropriate, our team helps them gain income though disability benetifs or employment; assisting with applications, resumes & job searches. In 2025, the TRC team robustly worked with 96 individuals regularly, connected 72 with medical & behavioral healthcare and treatment, placed 31 individuals in Sober Living Homes, helped find employment for 43, and moved 37 into permanent housing.
$690,227 spent$255,560 earned by the program74% of program spendingHousing Stability Case Management - Providing continuing support to over 100 of our disabled clients from the past 7 years who were chronically unhoused. We found them housing, income through employment and disability benefits and now continue to check in with them to make sure they have the resources and community support to remain secure and stable. We check in regularly with 20 individuals and annually with another 70-80. The assistance we provide ranges from all kinds of basic needs (food, phones, transportation, clothing, household items, and vital records) to medical & mental health services, benefits acquistion and maintenance, and help with employment (job searches, resumes, work clothes). Knowing that not all things are solved by a house, TRC continues to check in & work with these families and individuals as they move forward to make sure they dont feel isolated or abandoned.
$236,522 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $926,749.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $40k to $153k (+288%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 20% · 2023 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of The Reciprocity Collective’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Mary Putman
Executive Director
Board chair
Emily Sanders
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $76k.
8 of 17 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 The Reciprocity Collective’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 Reciprocity Collective leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 Reciprocity Collective.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 57% · 2021 21% · 2022 45% · 2023 92% — 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
40% of The Reciprocity Collective's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 The Reciprocity Collective'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 $346k 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. $402k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Reciprocity Collective has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Reciprocity Collective
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Reciprocity Collective: 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 Reciprocity Collective?
- The Reciprocity Collective (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,060 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($248,500). 9 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 The Reciprocity Collective have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $747,060 in grants to The Reciprocity Collective, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Reciprocity Collective?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $248,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Reciprocity Collective 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 17 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