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DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

EIN 74-2489854 DENVER, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2024
$2,319,442
Expenses 2024
$2,362,039

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T19
Classification
1000
Street
1445 MARKET STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BETTER LEADERS CREATE A BETTER COLORADO. THROUGH IMMERSIVE PROGRAMS, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND LIFELONG CONNECTION, THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION HELPS PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES UNLOCK THEIR POTENTIAL AND USE IT TO DRIVE MEANINGFUL CHANGE. WE DEVELOP PASSIONATE LEADERS WITH THE RIGHT SKILLS TO MAKE COLORADO A BETTER PLACE FOR EVERY COLORADAN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION HELPS PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES UNLOCK THEIR POTENTIAL AND USE IT TO DRIVE MEANINGFUL CHANGE.

  • LEADERSHIP EXCHANGE: LEADERSHIP EXCHANGE IS AN ANNUAL CITY-TO-CITY EXCHANGE THAT BRINGS DENVER'S PROMINENT BUSINESS AND CIVIC LEADERS TOGETHER TO DISCUSS THE INNOVATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES OF ANOTHER CITY FACING RELEVANT BUSINESS AND POLICY ISSUES WHILE STRENGTHENING THE COLLECTIVE VISION AND COLLABORATION IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 878,150 AND EXPENSES OF 660,958 FOR A PROGRAM NET OF 217,192.

    Expenses $660,958 · Revenue $605,150

  • B:CIVIC PROVIDES COMPANIES OF ALL TYPES AND SIZES THE INFORMATION, INSIGHT AND A NETWORK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO BE CIVIC-MINDED WHILE MEETING BUSINESS GOALS. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 303,159. THERE WERE PROGRAM EXPENSES OF 210,643 WITH ADDITIONAL EXPENSES COVERING FUNDRAISING OF 47,849 AND MG&A OF 21,562. TOTAL NET REVENUE FOR B:CIVIC WAS 23,105.

    Expenses $210,643 · Revenue $119,797

  • LEADERSHIP DENVER IS AN 11-MONTH PROGRAM FOR ACTIVE LEADERS FOCUSED ON ASSUMING CIVIC LEADERSHIP ROLES IN THE DENVER METRO COMMUNITY. LEADERSHIP DENVER IS A BALANCE OF IN-DEPTH ISSUES SEMINARS, RETREATS, AND A GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 269,275 AND EXPENSES OF 201,306 FOR A PROGRAM NET OF 67,969.

    Expenses $201,306 · Revenue $176,794

  • LEADERSHIP DENVER, ACCESS DENVER, LEADERSHIP ALUMNI NETWORK, LEADERSHIP FELLOWS, COLORADO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE,COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, AND OTHER PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO PREPARE AND CONNECT LEADERS FROM THE BUSINESS AND CIVIC COMMUNITIES TO STRENGTHEN COLORADO'S FUTURE. IMPACT DENVER BUILDS CONFIDENCE AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WHILE INTRODUCING THEM TO TOPICS OF SIGNIFICANCE TO THE REGION. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 188,794 AND EXPENSES OF 150,826 FOR A PROGRAM NET OF 37,968. ACCESS DENVER EXPOSES SENIOR-LEVEL DENVER EXECUTIVES TO THE INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE AND CRITICAL ISSUES OF THE DENVER AREA, PROVIDING AN EXCLUSIVE TWO- DAY INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY'S BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LANDSCAPE. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 64,320 AND EXPENSES OF 79,976 FOR A PROGRAM NET LOSS OF (15,656). LEADERSHIP ALUMNI NETWORK TIES TOGETHER OVER 5,000 ALUMNI OF THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION'S PROGRAMS, WHO REPRESENT THE DENVER METRO REGION'S BUSINESS, CIVIC, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 2,500 AND EXPENSES OF 47,476 FOR A PROGRAM LOSS OF (44,976). LEADERSHIP FELLOWS HELPS LEADERS WITH A DEEP COMMITMENT TO COLORADO TO FURTHER DEVELOP THEIR LEADERSHIP SKILLS SO THEY CAN INCREASE THEIR BUSINESS AND CIVIC IMPACT. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL REVENUE OF 55,762 AND EXPENSES OF 57,512 FOR A PROGRAM NET LOSS OF (1,750). THE COLORADO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE DEVELOPS THE NEXT GENERATION OF COLORADO'S LEADERS THROUGH A CONSORTIUM OF LEADERSHIP EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS ACROSS COLORADO. INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO THE PROGRAM IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, THIS PROGRAM GENERATED TOTAL PROGRAM REVENUE TOTALED 0, AND EXPENSES OF 18,899 FOR A PROGRAM NET LOSS OF (18,899). COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM REVENUE TOTALED 0, AND EXPENSES TOTALED 37,119, FOR A NET LOSS OF (37,119). INCLUSIVE OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO OTHER PROGRAMS IN FISCAL YEAR 2025, OTHER PROGRAMS GENERATED REVENUE TOTALING 0 AND EXPENSES OF 152,200, FOR PROGRAM LOSSES OF (152,200).

    Expenses $544,008 · Grants $150,030 · Revenue $353,857

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kristen Blessman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $60,982
    From this org
    $55,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,935
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related
  • Jerome Davis

    PRESIDENT TO

    Total calculated
    $317,900
    From this org
    $300,964
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,936
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,964
    Bonus
    $40,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,568
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,368
    Filer's total
    $317,900
  • Jonathan Ament

    OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $419,117
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $393,330
    Other
    $25,787
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $300,630 related
    Bonus
    not reported + $92,700 related
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $13,158 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $12,629 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $419,117 related
  • Jenna Diaz-Gonzalez

    PROGRAM DIRE

    Total calculated
    $123,138
    From this org
    $110,621
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,517
    Hours/week
    40
  • Catherine Greeley

    PROGRAM DIRE

    Total calculated
    $118,268
    From this org
    $104,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,555
    Hours/week
    40
  • Kayla Garcia

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Paul Lhevine

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Will Simpkins

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Meredith Hintze

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erin Jones

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.1 related
  • Alexandra Ballas

    DIRECTOR TO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrea Miller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Angela Morrison

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brandy Radey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chantell Taylor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Ross

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dj Close

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dave Espinosa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Demesha Hill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dianne Myles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Diedra Garcia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Doug Miller

    DIRECTOR TO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gloria Schoch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Guillermo Lambarri

    DIRECTOR TO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeremy Morgan

    DIRECTOR TO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,319,442
    Expenses
    $2,362,039
    Contributions
    $956,561
    Grants paid
    $150,030
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,830,207
    Expenses
    $2,419,731
    Contributions
    $1,315,679
    Grants paid
    $133,350
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,481,418
    Expenses
    $2,429,920
    Contributions
    $1,160,961
    Grants paid
    $174,848

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,375,145
    Expenses
    $2,535,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,871,440
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,689,450
    Expenses
    $1,899,781
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,526,336
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,469,429
    Expenses
    $2,592,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,794,708
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,722,685
    Expenses
    $2,827,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,948,082
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,460,967
    Expenses
    $2,784,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,724,229
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,141,915
    Expenses
    $2,493,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,832,772
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,463,121
    Expenses
    $2,008,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,303,074
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,940,137
    Expenses
    $1,521,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,406,131
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,730,718
    Expenses
    $1,317,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,370,140
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,295,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,726,852

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.