Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840951575
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- Phone
- (303) 293-2217
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,772,300
- Expenses
- $112,162,212
- Assets
- $191,712,033
- Liabilities
- $60,443,576
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRITTA FISHER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRITTA FISHER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $381,563 total reported compensation
- DANIEL LEWIS (PHYSICIAN): $328,111 total reported compensation
- LISA THOMPSON (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $296,424 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for homeless and at-risk families, children, and individuals throughout Colorado.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education and advocacy: the coalition's education and advocacy program seeks to raise public awareness of homelessness and to advocate for public policies to prevent and resolve homelessness. Through web-based outreach and information exchange, statewide educational programs, local community forums, grass-roots efforts, media relations, speaker programs and policy issue advocacy, the coalition works to foster long-term strategies to resolve homelessness through coordinated systems that increase the supply of affordable and supportive housing, livable incomes, and access to health, mental health and substance treatment services for the most vulnerable citizens.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $98.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $382K · 34 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 32 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.