Denver Inner City Parish Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840525768
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, United States
- Phone
- 303.629.0636
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,612,527
- Expenses
- $2,184,733
- Assets
- $1,225,685
- Liabilities
- $80,066
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Jason Torrez (Executive Dir.): $83,507 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Denver Inner City Parish loves and supports individuals and families in our community, empowering them to break the cycle of poverty. Our Vision. Community** : DICP believes that a healthy community is one where people of varied economic statuses have equal opportunities. DICP creates complementary support with other public and charitable resources for holistic support. Relationships** : DICP believes the value of healthy relationships is at the center of all we do, and it is the cornerstone to our success. Knowledge and Education** : DICP provides the tools our community needs to progress economically and live healthy, self-sustaining lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
The food pantry evolved it's client choice model and started using the 'Fresh App' to have participants make reserved appointments for them to come into the pantry and shop for groceries. The pantry has been designed to look more like a grocery store than a pantry. The food is still free, but the changes allow for more of a grocery buying experience affording the participants to feel more dignity in a situation which many feel embarrassed about.
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 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.