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EIN 84-4939757 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$2,486,610
Expenses 2024
$2,279,114

Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N80
Classification
1000
Street
5400 WASHINGTON ST

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).

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.

  • SULMA MENDOZA RIOS

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $112,363
    From this org
    $112,363
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • STEPHEN THOMPSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $111,866
    From this org
    $111,866
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DOUGLAS GRIESS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JEFF MESSER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • THOMAS SCHEFFEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • HEIDI MESSER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MICHELLE WARREN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • WES HAYES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • SCOTT LUMPKIN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMES HELFRICH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARIA SIERRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • PENNY SALAZAR-PHILLIPS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ROBYN ZOLMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CLEIDE COOPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,486,610
    Expenses
    $2,279,114
    Contributions
    $2,253,105
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,144,862
    Expenses
    $1,959,293
    Contributions
    $2,173,812
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,427,288
    Expenses
    $1,420,330
    Contributions
    $1,458,855
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 10 September 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.