Colorado · Nonprofit
TRI-LAKES CARES
TRI-LAKES CARES (Colorado) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,677 to it, the largest being GAZETTE CHARITIES ($459,461). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Tri-Lakes Cares does
Mission
Tri-Lakes Cares is a community based, volunteer supported, resource center whose purpose is to empower families and individuals to reach toward a better tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pantry food & sundries - we provide food and sundries to those faced with food insecurities. The value of donated food and sundries was $622,550.
$1,076,416 spentof which $848,218 as grants53% of program spendingFamily stabilization programs to include housing, utilities, self-sufficiency programs, education, transportation, medical, clothing, and other miscellaneous assistance are provided to families and seniors. Seasonal programs of school supplies are offered to children. Additionally, children and seniors are provided with gifts for christmas.
$953,668 spentof which $251,639 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,030,084.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $4.4M (+80%).
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 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% · 2024 8% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TRI-LAKES CARES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Haley Chapin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $215k → $558k.
15 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TRI-LAKES CARES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
TRI-LAKES CARES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
70% 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 TRI-LAKES CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 49% · 2019 14% · 2020 15% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — 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
46% of TRI-LAKES CARES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 TRI-LAKES CARES's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $883k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TRI-LAKES CARES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TRI-LAKES CARES
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 TRI-LAKES CARES: 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 TRI-LAKES CARES?
- TRI-LAKES CARES (Colorado) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,677 to it, the largest being GAZETTE CHARITIES ($459,461). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-LAKES CARES have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $3,567,677 in grants to TRI-LAKES CARES, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-LAKES CARES?
- GAZETTE CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $459,461 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-LAKES CARES 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 78 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