Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives
Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives (ODYGA) provides education, sustained resources, and life‑altering relationships to communities affected by gang culture through prevention, intervention, reentry and family support services.
About Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives
Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives is a Denver‑based community nonprofit (EIN 84-1119355) founded in 1988 by Reverend Leon Kelly and operates as a 501(c)(3) organization focused on reducing youth gang recruitment and violence through direct street intervention, school programs, and family engagement.
The organization runs in‑school prevention programming, reentry support for parolees, and community outreach (including resource distributions and seasonal drives), working primarily in Northeast Denver neighborhoods most impacted by gang activity.
Notable achievements
Established first community gang intervention agency in Denver (1988)
Founded by Rev. Leon Kelly, Open Door is one of the longest‑running community‑based anti‑gang programs in the Denver metropolitan area with decades of direct street and school work.
Sustained multi‑program service model
Operates complementary prevention, intervention and reentry programs (ACE, JYVP, FTS) that span in‑school, out‑of‑school and post‑release settings to address multiple points of risk.
Secured local foundation support (recent grant funding)
In the past 2–3 years the organization has received local philanthropic support to sustain operations and outreach, enabling seasonal distributions and program continuity.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $100K
- Annual revenue
- $110K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 84-1119355
- Location
- Denver, CO
- Website
- opendooryouth.org
- 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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