COSILoveYou is a Colorado Springs 501(c)(3) church-city nonprofit and self-described City Gospel Movement. Its current history frames the organization as the convergence of 2014-2015 church-service, church-generosity, and homelessness-response work that formalized into a nonprofit in 2017. The most reviewable funding record shows revenue dominated by private contributions and grants, with direct 2023 donor evidence from churches, Christian nonprofits, local business, a bank, and a foundation, and a now-recovered public 2024 filing whose donor fields are redacted.
The current record supports Christian-right / Christian-nationalist relevance mainly as partner and donor overlap, not as proof that COSILoveYou itself is a Christian-nationalist organization. The strongest direct overlaps are Focus on the Family as a community partner, New Life Church as a donor and church-partner cluster, and the Anschutz Foundation as a 2023 donor. A later Wayback pass strengthens the role map by adding 2018 donor evidence, 2019 and 2024 church-partner rosters, a 2022 community-partner sitemap, and archived 2019 / 2022 leadership pages. A records-gap follow-up adds reciprocal or partner-owned evidence for First Presbyterian Church, New Life Midtown, Woodmen Valley Chapel, Christian Care Ministry, and Norwood, while leaving Focus, Manna, Life.Church, and Life Network reciprocal evidence unresolved.
COSILoveYou's current about page describes the organization's beginning as a convergence of three streams in 2014 and 2015:
Bless the City, a late-2014 service weekend across four churches;COSILoveYou;The same source says Stu Davis, then at Springs Rescue Mission, and Yemi Mobolade, then at First Presbyterian Church, worked together to convene church and city leaders. In early 2016, Bless the City was renamed City Serve; later in 2016, the source says 55 pastors helped raise $1.2M toward a $1.5M Springs Rescue Mission shelter need.
By 2017, leadership teams from City Serve and the COSILoveYou church cohort formed the nonprofit. COSILoveYou's history says Mobolade became board chair, Woodmen Valley Chapel served as fiscal sponsor, and Stu Davis became executive director in 2018.
COSILoveYou's home page says COSILoveYou is a City Gospel Movement in Colorado Springs. Yemi Mobolade's personal / campaign-era City Gospel Movement page says the model was adopted from the Luis Palau Association and defines it as local churches and cultural leaders exercising faith and influence in every sector of society for city transformation.
City Gospel Movements describes itself as a branch of the Luis Palau Association. Its model defines a gospel movement as a united, holistic, sustainable effort by the citywide Church to seek the peace and prosperity of the city. The Palau What We Do page describes City Gospel Movements as equipping Christian leaders to build Evangelism Teams, assess a city's evangelism strengths and needs, map the Christian ecosystem, and bring churches, businesses, and nonprofits together for citywide strategies.
The proper relationship label is: COSILoveYou is a local City Gospel Movement / Palau-model example and resource contributor. The current record does not show Gospel City Movement as a separate Colorado Springs legal entity.
COSILoveYou's public filing record shows revenue dominated by contributions and grants:
| Year | Strongest source | Contributions / grants | Total revenue or income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Archived Form 990-EZ / ProPublica summary | $78,382 |
$78,382 |
| 2019 | ProPublica 990EZ summary | $131,122 |
$133,414 |
| 2020 | ProPublica summary | $344,658 |
$344,785 |
| 2021 | Direct Form 990 / ProPublica | $392,689 |
$392,867 |
| 2022 | Direct Form 990 | $487,482 |
$487,859 |
| 2023 | Direct Form 990 | $512,401 |
$509,044 |
| 2024 | ProPublica rendered Form 990 / ProPublica profile lead | $664,282 |
$663,256 |
For 2023, COSILoveYou's own posted client-copy Form 990 includes Schedule B donor pages. Named contributors were Compassion International ($40,000), First Presbyterian Church ($26,169), Norwood Development Group ($25,000), Anschutz Foundation ($15,000), Life Church ($15,000), Manna Church ($20,500), Alpine Bank ($12,500), and New Life Church ($11,250). These named entries total $165,419 of the $512,401 contribution / grant line.
The 2024 public filing was recovered through ProPublica's rendered filing/full-text view. It shows $663,256 in total revenue, $664,282 in contributions and grants, $574,322 in total expenses, $88,934 revenue less expenses, $410,024 end-of-year assets / net assets, and no liabilities. Its public Schedule B rendering includes contributor rows but redacts contributor names, addresses, and contribution amounts as RESTRICTED, so direct 2024 donor identities remain unresolved.
An archived 2018 Form 990-EZ adds earlier Schedule B donor evidence: Chris Jenkins ($30,000), Discovery Christian Church ($8,000), Red Rock Church ($14,897), and First Presbyterian Church ($10,000). That form also lists Blessing Mobolade as executive chairperson, Gregory Lindsey as secretary, and Jason Perkins as vice chair / treasurer.
The partner page's funding model asks church partners for an annual offering, city partners for regular support at their discretion, and strategic partners for .5% of annual or missions budget. That is evidence of the stated model, not proof that each listed partner paid.
The main documented program lanes are:
Impact reports and Form 990 program descriptions support those lanes, but impact reports are institutional PR and should not be treated as independent verification of every output metric.
The direct filing record currently supports:
2018-07-01.82-4228018.2021: 12 voting / independent governing-body members; no employees; 3,500 volunteers; Blessing Mobolade listed as Emeritus Chairperson.2022: 11 voting / independent governing-body members; no employees; 4,780 volunteers.2023: 13 voting governing-body members, 12 independent members, 5 employees, and 4,780 volunteers.2024: 9 voting / independent governing-body members, 6 employees, and 4,780 volunteers.The 2023 Form 990 identifies Stuart Davis as executive director, Gregory Lindsey as chairperson, Ben Anderson as vice-chair, Amber Ayers as secretary, Steve Sauer as treasurer, and Blessing Mobolade as emeritus chairperson. Earlier 2021 and 2022 filings identify Alejandro Lugo as treasurer and include Amber Ayers and Blessing Mobolade in similar secretary / emeritus chair roles.
The 2024 Form 990 identifies Stuart Davis as executive director, Jayde Duncan as chairman, Steve Sauer as treasurer, Denise Waldon as secretary, Renee Behr as vice chair, and Bernell Parr, Claudia Herrera, Peter Hilz, Jonathan Cleveland, and Caroline Monberg in board / non-voting roles. It reports a written conflict-of-interest policy but no whistleblower or document-retention policy.
The March 2018 COS I Love You Leadership Handbook is now retained. It describes a Board of Directors of up to 15 members, an Executive Chairperson, full-time paid Executive Director, steering teams, leadership expectations, term rules, conflict-of-interest policy, and initiative lanes for CityServe, COS I Love You Sunday, mayoral initiatives, homelessness response, school partnerships, and family initiatives. It is not the same as the founding bylaws: Appendix 1 is labeled BOARD OF DIRECTOR BYLAWS, but the recovered DOCX contains the heading without actual bylaw text before Appendix 2 begins.
Founding documents, actual bylaws, Woodmen Valley fiscal-sponsor agreement, and complete founding-board minutes are not yet captured.
Direct partner / donor relationships supported in the current source set:
| Actor | Relationship label | Evidence strength |
|---|---|---|
| Yemi Mobolade | co-founder / founding board chair | COSILoveYou history and Yemi self-description. |
| Stu Davis | co-founder / executive director | COSILoveYou history and Forms 990. |
| Woodmen Valley Chapel | fiscal sponsor; church partner | COSILoveYou history and current partner page. |
| First Presbyterian Church | church partner; 2018 and 2023 donor; board / steering affiliations through named people; reciprocal mission partner evidence |
Archived partner page, 2024 church-partner sitemap, 2018 and 2023 Schedule B, 2019 / 2022 leadership pages, and First Pres mission page. |
| New Life Church / New Life campuses | church partner; 2023 donor; team affiliation through New Life Midtown; reciprocal outreach evidence |
2019 partner assets, 2024 church-partner sitemap, 2023 Schedule B, 2022 leadership page, and New Life Midtown outreach page. |
| Manna Church | church partner; 2023 donor |
2019 partner asset, 2024 church-partner sitemap, and 2023 Schedule B. |
| Life.Church | church partner; 2023 donor |
2024 church-partner sitemap and 2023 Schedule B. |
| Discovery Church / Discovery Christian Church | 2018 donor; church partner; governance affiliation through Greg Lindsey |
Archived 2018 Schedule B, 2019 partner assets, 2024 sitemap, and leadership pages. |
| Red Rock Church | 2018 donor; church partner; governance affiliation through Jason Perkins |
Archived 2018 Schedule B and 2019 partner / leadership pages. |
| Compassion International / Compassion in Jesus' name | community partner / 2023 donor |
2022 community-partner sitemap, current partner-page branding, and Schedule B. |
| Focus on the Family | community partner; handbook family-initiative reference | 2022 community-partner sitemap, current partner page, and COSILoveYou Leadership Handbook; reciprocal Focus-owned evidence not found in this pass. |
| Life Network | community partner | 2019 partner asset, 2022 community-partner sitemap, and current partner page. |
| Christian Care Ministry | community partner; personnel/program participation evidence | 2022 community-partner sitemap, current partner page, 2019 steering-team affiliation, and Christian Care Ministry / Medi-Share employee spotlight. |
| Norwood | community partner / 2023 donor; supporter / volunteer / event-presenter evidence |
2022 community-partner sitemap, current partner page, Schedule B, and Norwood LinkedIn / Chamber & EDC CityServe language. |
| Anschutz Foundation | 2023 donor |
Schedule B only in this pass. |
| Alpine Bank | 2023 donor |
Schedule B. |
| Springs Rescue Mission | origin-era shelter partner / program context | COSILoveYou history and program descriptions. |
| Center for Strategic Ministry | Woodmen-adjacent support / community-partner context | CSM About page lists COSILoveYou as a community partner and lists Stu Davis / Josh Lindstrom on its board; MinistryWatch reports Davis salary paid by Woodmen Valley Chapel's CSM. |
| Luis Palau Association / City Gospel Movements | model / network / resource relationship | CGM, Palau, Yemi, COSILoveYou sources, and retained Leadership Handbook resource page. |
The archived role matrix is maintained as cosiloveyou-archived-partner-role-matrix-2017-2024-2026-04-16. It separates donor, church partner, community partner, fiscal sponsor, governance tie, and ideological/contextual adjacency rather than treating every roster item as the same relationship type.
The COSILoveYou source set should not be flattened into the repo's Christian nationalism concept. The direct evidence supports a church-city coalition, evangelism, city service, public/private collaboration, and faith-based nonprofit infrastructure.
Still, several direct partner / donor overlaps are relevant to the repo's Christian-right and Christian-nationalist material:
Anti-LGBTQ and describes its role in Christian-right infrastructure. Relationship label: community partner / institutional overlap.2023 donor and multiple New Life campuses are listed as church partners. Existing repo raw material preserves historical New Life / Ted Haggard / World Prayer Center / Peter Wagner / New Apostolic Reformation / spiritual-warfare context. Relationship label: donor and church-partner overlap with a historically important local charismatic / NAR-adjacent institution.2023 donor. Existing repo outputs connect the foundation to Colorado conservative / Colorado Christian University donor infrastructure. Relationship label: donor overlap.Not found in this pass: direct COSILoveYou ties to Family Policy Alliance, Alliance Defending Freedom, Turning Point USA / TPUSA Faith, Patriot Academy, Truth & Liberty, Ziklag, National Association of Christian Lawmakers, Andrew Wommack Ministries, or Charis Bible College.
2024 Form 990 remains unresolved, but ProPublica's rendered public filing is now recovered. Public 2024 Schedule B donor details remain unresolved because the rendered Schedule B redacts contributor fields.2023 revenue figure does not match the direct 2023 Form 990; use the Form 990 for filing-grade 2023 totals.