Colorado · Nonprofit
THE ST FRANCIS CENTER
THE ST FRANCIS CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,102,780 to it, the largest being CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 ($2,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The St Francis Center does
Mission
St. Francis center (sfc) is a transformation hub for adults who are homeless in the metro denver area, providing shelter along with a myriad of services that enable people to meet their basic needs for daily survival and to transition out of homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On a daily basis, an average of 500 people who are homeless were seen at St Francis Center. Our social services staff provided assistance to day shelter guests, including helping with ID assistance, bus tickets, long distance travel, local transportation, payee services and informational referrals. The Day Shelter also provides clothing and bathing facilities as well as storage units, message boards, and use of the St Francis Center's address for receiving mail. We also provide wellness services which includes behavioral health care options. The St Francis Center's housing programs help people transition from homelessness to a more permanent residence. Case management helps individuals maintain their housing and health. Beyond helping people physically move into housing, the team also provides case management support connecting residents with resources such as health care, mental health services, substance misuse treatment, and life skills support to ensure that residents are successful. The St Francis Center Outreach team operates on the streets of Denver to connect people to resources at the Center and resources throughout the Denver metro area. The team assists many individuals…
$5,080,280 spentof which $563,039 as grants$314,347 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,080,280.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9.4M to $19M (+99%).
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 59% · 2021 70% · 2023 72% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Benjamine Kapnick
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $529k → $1.1M.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 ST FRANCIS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 ST FRANCIS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
49% 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 ST FRANCIS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 79% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 20% · 2023 47% — 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
51% of THE ST FRANCIS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
64% of THE ST FRANCIS CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding THE ST FRANCIS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
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 ST FRANCIS CENTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Warren Residences LLC · partnership
- Saint Francis Apartments Lllp · partnership
- St Francis Development LLC · corp_trust
- Sfa West Gp LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ST FRANCIS CENTER: 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 ST FRANCIS CENTER?
- THE ST FRANCIS CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,102,780 to it, the largest being CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 ($2,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ST FRANCIS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $9,102,780 in grants to THE ST FRANCIS CENTER, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ST FRANCIS CENTER?
- CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ST FRANCIS CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 59 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