Denver Research Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841392442
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
720-457-0670
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,173,308
Expenses
$4,644,883
Assets
$4,697,139
Liabilities
$2,530,096

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • CYNTHIA GASAWAY (EXECUTIVE DI): $202,958 total reported compensation
  • KRISTEN BATCHO (FINANCE DIRE): $182,942 total reported compensation
  • BRYAN WEIGLE (GRANTS DIREC): $123,100 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

DRI grant administrators assist VA PIs in developing and submitting research proposals.

What it reported doing in 2025

Face the fight - implementing computerized cognitive behavioral therapies for suicide prevention: as highlighted in the department of veterans affairs national strategy for prevention veteran suicide (2018-2028), the enterprise has adopted a public approach to suicide prevention. This entails implementing both clinical and community based strategies. Towards this end, the vha has been focused on the implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies (ebps) for selected and indicated veteran's populations. As part of the transformation of its mental health care system, the vha promoted the national dissemination and implementation of ebps in vha. Face the fight - implementation of effective & culturally responsive vets: in the ongoing effort to reduce veteran suicide and promote lethal means safety, the work will be with veteran-serving mental health organizations who have participated in the initial face the fight project to refine and expand upon the lethal means safety counseling policies and staff trainings. Specifically, trainings will be new, innovative lethal means safety intervention involving veterans and their concerned significant others: the family firearms safety training. Intervention will also be expanded to include new organizations that serve asian american, native american, and pacific islander veteran populations. Work will be done with these new organizations to launch their own suicide prevention quality programs and initiate new and/or refined policies and trainings in veteran suicide risk screenings and veteran ad military cultural competency. Preventing suicide among survivors of military sexual violence: this study examines associations between anticipated enacted stigma, self-stigma, institutional betrayal, and institutional courage with suicidal ideation and attempt following mst, and if gender, sexual orientation, and military separation status moderate these associations. Scientific investigation: major areas of scientific investigation in other research projects include suicide prevention, traumatic brain injury, diabetes, heart, and lung disease.

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 96% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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: -11.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $203K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.5M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.