SafeSide Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992049832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3238548587
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Addictive Disorders N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $491,087
- Expenses
- $429,107
- Assets
- $146,156
- Liabilities
- $19,817
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Dave Ammons (Executive Dir.)
- Ross Miller (Secretary)
- Jay Frost (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SafeSide Foundation helps stabilize and expand peer-led recovery services for individuals experiencing homelessness and opioid addiction in Colorado, ensuring that non-reimbursable work like street outreach, trust-building, and barrier removal continues when Medicaid funding is uncertain.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provision of recovery housing, emergency shelter and warm meals for individuals in the community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 152% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 74.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $412K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $372K reported
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.