Colorado · Nonprofit
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081,267 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($310,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy Hood - Food sovereignty programs Including on-site meals, food, bank, farming, and gardening programs, and food justice programs
$150,488 spent11% of program spendingYouth Leadership & Healing Institute (Girasol, Hueliti, Joven Noble & Youth Justice Apprentices) - Gender specific rites of passage programs, culturally rooted leadership programs, healing informed programs, community organizing and advocacy
$140,413 spent11% of program spendingKalli Tepatiani Center - CCFC's Healing center, Cultural and ancestral learning, and traditional ceremonies
$110,517 spent$3,641 earned by the program8% of program spendingMentoring - Kalpulli - After school and summer mentoring program focused on violence and gang reduction, matriculation into middle school, graduation, and college or trade school.
$64,285 spent5% of program spendingOther Program Expenses - Includes Family & Community Services - mother/women's healing, circles and retreats, community, healing, circles, and mediation, community response to violence, impacting families in the community
$861,555 spent65% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,327,258.
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 2020 to 2021, from $382k to $1.5M (+304%).
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 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 27% · 2020 46% · 2021 7% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Angell Perez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $112k → $134k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change’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
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 47% · 2019 52% · 2020 74% · 2021 62% · 2022 56% · 2023 60% — 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
17% of Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change'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
95% of Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $507k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change?
- Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081,267 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($310,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,081,267 in grants to Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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