Growing Home
Legal name: Growing Home Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841461503
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Westminster, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034260430
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,998,267
- Expenses
- $3,433,882
- Assets
- $4,490,418
- Liabilities
- $221,552
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VERONICA PEREZ (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- VERONICA PEREZ (CEO): $167,626 total reported compensation
- MITZI HICKS (FINANCE MANA): $86,579 total reported compensation
- JAMAIN JENKINS (PT FIN MGR E): $2,914 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Growing Home collaborates with our community, providing families and individuals with critical resources, guidance, and wraparound services to grow pathways to stable and healthy futures. Our Vision. []( Meet Our Wonderful Volunteers Meet Our Wonderful Volunteers April is National Volunteer Month, and at Growing Home we recognize our community support, not only this month, but year-round. Now in our 26th year, we continue to celebrate the power and gift of time of the hundreds of volunteers that contribute to our mission and the operations of our Food Pantry and community garden. Each day, we love with food as we serve North Denver families with the helping hands of our incredible volunteers. Six of our Growing Home volunteers recently received the President’s Volunteer Service Awards for their high number of volunteer hours in 2023. They are: Anita Head Sophia Coen Jesse Bradshaw...
What it reported doing in 2025
Lifelong stability: growing home believes that thriving, stable communities can exist when the organization taps into the resiliency and leadership of its participants. Collaborative coaching, resource navigation, connecting community are programs that focus on long-term stability in the form of case management, goal setting, community impact and engagement. Growing home focuses on community organizing, leadership development, and community-led projects such as a community garden. Our community engagement focuses on our priority pathways of food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability.
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 100% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $168K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.