Colorado · Nonprofit
URBAN PEAK DENVER
URBAN PEAK DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,525,646 to it, the largest being COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ($2,802,947). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Urban Peak Denver does
Mission
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The mothership opened in august 2024 and was fully operational in december 2024. The mothership is a four-story campus built to house the agencys main services, as well as a medical clinic, on-site mental health services, a classroom and training space, a music studio, an art studio, and recreational outdoor spaces/terraces. Some of urban peak administrative offices are also housed in the mothership. The mothership has a 136-bed capacity, including congregate emergency shelter for minors (age 12-17) and young adults (age 18-24), as well as transitional shelter in two-person, dorm-style units called "neighborhoods".
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The mothership opened in august 2024 and was fully operational in december 2024. The mothership has a 136-bed capacity, including congregate emergency shelter for minors (age 12-17) and young adults (age 18-24), as well as transitional shelter in two-person, dorm-style units called neighborhoods. Congregate and neighborhood overnight shelter: denver's only licensed and supervised overnight shelter for unhoused youth ages 12 through 24 provides safety and security for youth in crisis. Youth are provided an array of services to help support them in their journey toward self-sufficiency. When youth enter the shelter, they participate in intake assessment to help determine individual needs and identify personal barriers to exiting the streets. Urban peak has implemented an organizational structure and treatment framework called trauma informed care (tic). Tic involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. Urban peak emphasizes the physical, psychological, and emotional safety of both youth and staff, and assumes that every youth accessing services has experienced trauma. In fy25, 403 unduplicated youth stayed at the mothership for 27,713 bed…
$5,950,619 spentof which $393,982 as grants$40,614 earned by the program67% of program spendingHousing services: urban peak manages two denver housing properties (studio and one-bedroom apartment complexes) with fifty units of supportive housing for youth experiencing homelessness. Additionally, urban peak oversees and provides case management to youth in over thirty community housing sites. In total, urban peak manages over eighty units of housing for denver youth experiencing homelessness. Individual treatment, support groups, and case management are combined in urban peak's housing programs to offer a stable and safe platform from which to achieve a life away from the streets. Every youth in urban peak housing has a case manager as well as access to education and employment programs, mental health and health services, transportation, life skills classes, and basic needs assistance. In fy25, 159 unduplicated youth (139 adults and 20 dependent children) were housed, case managed, and received comprehensive support services. 83% exited to a safe and stable place.
$2,302,767 spentof which $525,591 as grants26% of program spendingOutreach and resource navigation: urban peak's street outreach team members are on the streets at various times throughout the day, seeking out runaway and homeless young people wherever they may congregate. Staff engage youth in conversation and distribute hygiene supplies, clothing, food, and other items that offer protection on the streets. Urban peak is able to offer services provided throughout the agency including testing for hiv, sti, and hepatitis c. Urban peak's outreach staff is adept at establishing trust with these young people and providing referrals for shelter, education and employment, mental health services, drug and addiction services, health care, and meals. In fy25 urban peak's outreach team contacted 173 unduplicated youth an average of 17 times per youth. Of those youth, 85% accessed urban peak's day shelter. 49% of youth living on the street were placed in emergency shelter, permanent, or transitional housing.
$692,708 spentof which $29,135 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,946,094.
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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $57M (+327%).
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 38% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 45% · 2021 54% · 2022 33% · 2023 12% · 2024 32% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of URBAN PEAK DENVER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Christina Carlson
CEO
Board chair
Lindi Sinton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $875k → $3.3M.
20 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.1M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Denver Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN PEAK DENVER raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN PEAK DENVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
URBAN PEAK DENVER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
81% 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 URBAN PEAK DENVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% — 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
42% of URBAN PEAK DENVER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
72% of URBAN PEAK DENVER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M 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.
Against its field
URBAN PEAK DENVER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN PEAK DENVER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.7M
- Department of Agriculture$89k
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 URBAN PEAK DENVER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- 1548 Ogden Street LLC · disregarded
- The Urban Peak Shelter LLC · disregarded
- Rowan Gardens LLC · disregarded
- The Spot Youth Center LLC · disregarded
- The Peak Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER?
- URBAN PEAK DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,525,646 to it, the largest being COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ($2,802,947). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN PEAK DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $16,525,646 in grants to URBAN PEAK DENVER, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN PEAK DENVER?
- COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS is the largest funder on record, with $2,802,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN PEAK DENVER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 98 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