Mahalo
Denver, CO

Illuminate Colorado (formerly Colorado Drug Endangered Children, Inc.)

EIN 57-1185029
Housing, Food & Basic Needs Family Support Services Children & youth Low-income
Mission

Illuminate Colorado strengthens families, organizations, and communities to prevent child maltreatment through evidence-informed programs, statewide training, technical assistance, and policy advocacy.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

About Illuminate Colorado (formerly Colorado Drug Endangered Children, Inc.)

Illuminate Colorado (EIN 57-1185029) is a Colorado-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that grew from the Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children and now operates statewide to prevent child maltreatment by combining family support, professional training, programmatic partnerships, and systems change.

The organization houses and operates multiple statewide initiatives — including SuPPoRT Colorado (perinatal substance use), CHoSEN (hospital collaboration on substance-exposed newborns), Family Connects Colorado, FASD supports, and the Colorado Strengthening Families Network — and provides training, toolkits, and technical assistance to professionals and communities across Colorado.

Notable achievements

Statewide program consolidation and rebrand

Evolved from Colorado Drug Endangered Children into Illuminate Colorado through a multi-agency consolidation that expanded scope to prevent child maltreatment statewide and integrated multiple program lines and partners.

Leadership of statewide collaboratives

Founded or provides backbone support for initiatives such as SuPPoRT Colorado and the CHoSEN Collaborative to improve responses to substance-exposed newborns and perinatal substance use.

Expanded statewide reach and funding growth

In recent years the organization has grown programmatically and fiscally, increasing training reach, staff capacity, and earned/grant funding to support statewide services and convenings.

At a glance

Total assets
$1.9M
Annual revenue
$6.3M
Tax status
501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN
57-1185029
Location
Denver, CO
On Mahalo since
November 2025

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

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