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COMMUNITY FIRM

EIN 84-4867019 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$102,215,388
Expenses 2024
$99,637,105

Program services were 97.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
1600 N DOWNING ST STE 600

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE COMMUNITY FIRM DBA COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEFENSE PROJECT (CEDP) IS A NOT-FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SERVICES, PUBLIC BENEFITS, AND POLICY CHANGE. OUR MISSION IS TO KEEP COLORADANS HOUSED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE COMMUNITY FIRM IS A NONPROFIT ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE SOCIAL AND LEGAL SERVICES, PUBLIC BENEFITS, & POLICY CHANGE FOR & BY PARTNERING WITH LOW INCOME & WORKING PEOPLE.

  • INTEGRATED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND HOUSEHOLD STABILITY SERVICES: THE ORGANIZATION OFFERS A FUND THAT PROVIDES EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE TO RENTERS FACING EVICTION OR DISPLACEMENT. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, CEDP QUALIFIES RENTERS FACING EVICTION AND DISPLACEMENT FOR BENEFITS, AND IT ISSUES QUICK, ACCURATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE CHECKS. ITS EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO MOVE FASTER THAN THE EVICTION TIME LINE, WITH CAPABILITIES TO QUALIFY TENANTS FOR BENEFITS AND ISSUE PAYMENTS IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS WHEN NEEDED TO STABILIZE A HOUSEHOLD. SINCE JULY 2022, CEDP HAS ALSO MANAGED THE STATE OF COLORADO'S EMERGENCY INTAKE SYSTEM FOR RENTERS FACING DISPLACEMENT. THIS INTAKE SYSTEM ANSWERS TENANT CALLS ABOUT THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, FEATURES INTAKE AGENTS AT COURTHOUSES ACROSS THE STATE, AND COORDINATES AMONG SERVICE PROVIDERS. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, CEDP MAKES REFERRALS TO ITS OWN EVICTION PREVENTION AND HOMELESSNESS DIVERSION PROGRAMS, AND COORDINATES SERVICE DELIVERY WITH OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS ACROSS THE STATE FOR HOUSEHOLD STABILITY SERVICES AND OTHER NEEDED BENEFITS AND SERVICES.

    Expenses $80,286,458 · Grants $71,332,935 · Revenue $361,484

  • In 2023, we launched a new program to expand the stabilizing services we offer to the community. Housing is a human right, and the loss of a home can lead to cycles of poverty that are exceedingly difficult to recover from. We are able to provide mortgage assistance for clients who are behind on payments based on the individual circumstances of each. Our team of caring navigators and lawyers are passionately committed to keeping our clients in their homes.

    Expenses $13,737,303 · Grants $12,378,820

  • LEGAL AID: THROUGH CED LAW, THE ORGANIZATION OFFERS LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO RENTERS FACING EVICTION IN THE STATE OF COLORADO. MANAGED SEPARATELY FROM THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND HOUSEHOLD STABILITY SERVICES PROGRAM, CED LAW PROVIDES LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO COLORADANS FACING EVICTION OR STRUGGLING WITH CONSUMER AND HOUSING DEBT BURDENS. DEPENDING ON CLIENT NEED, ATTORNEYS PROVIDE ADVICE, LIMITED ASSISTANCE REPRESENTATION, OR FULL-SERVICE LEGAL REPRESENTATION. CED LAW ALSO MANAGES LEGAL AID CLINICS ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND IN COURTHOUSES ACROSS THE STATE.

    Expenses $2,860,996 · Grants $56,705

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • CAREY DEGENARO

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER LOPEZ

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCO DORADO

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SAM GILMAN

    CO-FOUNDER/CO-CEO

    Total calculated
    $231,876
    From this org
    $189,377
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,499
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,377
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $36,840
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,659
    Filer's total
    $231,876

  • ZACHARY NEUMANN

    CO-FOUNDER/CO-CEO

    Total calculated
    $232,861
    From this org
    $189,428
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,433
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,428
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $37,642
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,791
    Filer's total
    $232,861

  • BURT NADLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VICTORIA SUAREZ-PALOMO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rebecca Nelson

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $162,028
    From this org
    $141,926
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,102
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,926
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,993
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,109
    Filer's total
    $162,028

  • Ceasar Jimenez

    Vice President of Housing and Supportive Services

    Total calculated
    $125,096
    From this org
    $119,085
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,011
    Hours/week
    40

  • Christina Garcia

    Chief Program Officer

    Total calculated
    $162,239
    From this org
    $133,220
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,019
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,220
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,420
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,599
    Filer's total
    $162,239

  • Kirby Rising

    Vice President of Program Operations

    Total calculated
    $121,835
    From this org
    $119,446
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,389
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rebecca Cohn

    Chief Legal Officer

    Total calculated
    $145,988
    From this org
    $127,124
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,864
    Hours/week
    40

  • WILL RITTER

    VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGY

    Total calculated
    $130,599
    From this org
    $116,546
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,053
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $102,215,388
    Expenses
    $99,637,105
    Contributions
    $101,691,804
    Grants paid
    $83,768,460
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $69,362,073
    Expenses
    $66,467,267
    Contributions
    $68,616,547
    Grants paid
    $54,851,006
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $84,503,443
    Expenses
    $81,946,257
    Contributions
    $84,421,354
    Grants paid
    $73,769,349

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
    $18,879,836
    Expenses
    $18,461,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,715,849

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $336,443
    Expenses
    $16,241
    Assets (EOY)
    $320,409

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.