Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition

Treat this listing with caution: the evidence strongly suggests Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition (CVRC) is not an active grantmaking foundation for outside organizations, despite appearing in a "Health"-category foundation dataset. Our own database flags it `is_grantmaker: false`, with no `grants_page_url`, no `typical_grant_size`, and no `application_process` on file. Its IRS classification (NTEE F20 — Mental Health, Crisis Intervention / Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment) and mission description match a direct-service organization, not a funder: CVRC's own profile describes helping homeless and low-income veterans obtain independent living through recovery-oriented mental health treatment, shelter, food, job-search assistance, budget/credit training, and group counseling. Its website (coloradoveteransresourcecoalition.org) is a minimal landing page — "Supporting Colorado's Veterans Together" — with only a name/email contact form and no About, Programs, Grants, or Contact subpages live (all returned 404s during this research). Form 990 filings confirm the organization discloses charitable disbursements tied to its own service delivery, not grants awarded to other nonprofits. Financially, CVRC is small and shrinking: FY2025 revenue was just $46,311 (100% investment income from its ~$1.7M asset base), against $104,362 in expenses — a $58,051 operating deficit funded by drawing down reserves. There is no evidence of active fundraising, donor cultivation, or a grants budget large enough to support external grantmaking. Grant seekers should not build a funding strategy around CVRC as a source of grant dollars. The more productive approach is to treat CVRC as a potential program or referral partner in the Colorado Springs veteran mental-health and housing space — useful for co-location, referral pipelines, or joint programming with organizations serving the same population — rather than as a prospective funder. Any outreach should open with a direct phone call or the website's contact form to confirm current operating status and leadership (Chief Administrator Ralph Delosa, per FY2025 990 compensation data) before investing further time, since no public materials describe a funding relationship of any kind.

CVRC shows no pattern of grants issued to external organizations in any Form 990 filing reviewed, so traditional grant-size analysis (median, range, program/geographic breakdown) is not possible — there is no grantee list, and our database's matched grantee table for this record is empty (`total_grants: 0`). What the filings do show is a six-year financial trajectory: total revenue was $410,362 (FY2020, actually recorded as expenses that year — see below) declining sharply. Precise year-by-year figures: FY2020 revenue $107,565 / expenses $410,362 (net -$302,797); FY2021 revenue $242,516 / expenses $405,201 (net -$162,685); FY2022 revenue $50,184 / expenses $286,406 (net -$236,222); FY2023 revenue $958,297 / expenses $146,681 (net +$811,616, driven by a one-time $954,875 asset sale); FY2024 revenue $50,614 / expenses $116,312 (net -$65,698); FY2025 revenue $46,311 / expenses $104,362 (net -$58,051). Total assets have declined from $1,835,771 (FY2023, post-asset-sale peak) to $1,709,277 (FY2025). In FY2024-2025, 100% of reported revenue came from investment income — no contributions, program service revenue, or grants-in were recorded, meaning CVRC currently has no active fundraising or grant-revenue stream of its own. Operating expenses in FY2025 ($104,362) are dominated by administrative compensation: Chief Administrator Ralph Delosa received $73,042 in FY2025 and $65,220 in FY2024, meaning roughly 70% of the operating budget in the most recent year went to a single staff compensation line rather than program delivery or external grants. With expenses this small and no disclosed grants-out line item, there is no realistic capacity for CVRC to fund other nonprofits at any meaningful scale in its current state.

CVRC's $1,709,277 asset base sits squarely in the middle of this peer cluster (range: $1,637,188-$1,768,591), all classified under the same "Health" NTEE major category and similarly sized in the $1.6-1.8M band. None of the five peer foundations have public websites on file in our database, and none show disclosed annual giving figures either — this appears to be a systemic gap in this peer set rather than a CVRC-specific weakness. What differentiates CVRC is that it has publicly available, itemized Form 990 data (via ProPublica) showing declining revenue and no grants-out activity, while peers remain largely opaque. Grant seekers evaluating this cluster should independently verify grantmaking activity for every entry rather than assuming "Health"-category classification implies an open funding program.

No news coverage, press releases, or program announcements specific to Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition were found for 2025 or 2026 — searches returned only unrelated Colorado veteran-service organizations (Mountain Community Veterans Service Center, marking its 10th anniversary in 2026; United Veterans Coalition of Colorado; the Colorado Division of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Assistance Grantee program, which distributed roughly $21M across Colorado veteran organizations in the 2025-2026 cycle but does not list CVRC by name in available search results). The most concrete recent activity comes from IRS filings: FY2023 saw a one-time $954,875 asset sale that temporarily lifted total revenue to $958,297 and assets to a peak of $1,835,771, before both reverted downward in FY2024 and FY2025. Leadership compensation data shows Chief Administrator Ralph Delosa was paid $73,042 in FY2025 (up from $65,220 in FY2024), while board officers (President, Chairman, Treasurer) received no compensation in either year. The organization's website remains a minimal single-page presence with no dated content, blog, or news section, reinforcing that CVRC has limited public-facing communications activity. Grant seekers should not expect this organization to publish grant cycles, RFPs, or funding announcements based on current evidence — any engagement will need to be initiated proactively rather than discovered through public channels.

No formal grant application process, LOI requirement, proposal template, or funding portal for Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition could be located anywhere — not in our database (`application_process`, `application_form_url`, `application_deadline`, and `grants_page_url` are all null/empty), not on the organization's own website (About/Programs/Grants/Contact subpages all 404), and not in any third-party grants database searched (GuideStar, Cause IQ, Grantable, Zeffy). Before investing any time drafting a proposal, call the organization directly to confirm (a) whether CVRC currently makes any grants to outside organizations at all, given its `is_grantmaker: false` classification and lack of grants-out activity in five years of Form 990 filings, and (b) who the correct point of contact is, since the website offers only a generic "Drop us a line" form with no named staff contact beyond Chief Administrator Ralph Delosa (identified only through 990 compensation disclosures, not the website itself). If CVRC confirms it does not fund external organizations, pivot the ask: given its NTEE F20 focus (veteran recovery-oriented mental health treatment, homeless/low-income veteran shelter, job search, budget/credit training, group counseling), a partnership, referral, or co-programming proposal is far more plausible than a funding request — CVRC's FY2025 operating budget of $104,362 leaves no realistic room for outbound grants regardless of mission fit. The biggest mistake a grant seeker could make here is submitting a generic LOI or proposal package assuming a standard foundation review cycle exists; there is no evidence of one, and doing so risks the request being ignored entirely rather than declined. If pursuing contact, reference CVRC's specific service population (Colorado Springs-area homeless and low-income veterans in mental health recovery) rather than generic veteran-services language, since that specificity is the only mission signal available from public sources.