This cluster uses:
2017-2024;82-4228018;2018 COS I Love You Leadership Handbook;2024 Form 990 full-text pages;City Gospel Movement page;Source types:
COSILoveYou is best described as a Colorado Springs church-city nonprofit and local City Gospel Movement, not as a generic civic nonprofit. Its mission and program language are explicitly Christian, evangelistic, and church-unity oriented, while its program surface emphasizes city service, homelessness response, schools, back-to-school support, worship / prayer gatherings, and cross-sector civic convening.
The funding record is contribution-heavy. The most filing-grade direct evidence for 2021-2024 shows almost all revenue as contributions and grants. The currently retained 2023 Form 990 names eight large contributors because COSILoveYou posted a client-copy Schedule B: Compassion International, First Presbyterian Church, Norwood Development Group, Anschutz Foundation, Life Church, Manna Church, Alpine Bank, and New Life Church. An archived 2018 Form 990-EZ adds earlier named contributors: Chris Jenkins, Discovery Christian Church, Red Rock Church, and First Presbyterian Church. The recovered public 2024 Form 990 gives filing-grade totals but not donor identities because its public Schedule B contributor fields are redacted.
The City Gospel Movements connection is direct. COSILoveYou calls itself a City Gospel Movement, Yemi Mobolade says the model was adopted from the Luis Palau Association, and City Gospel Movements / Palau sources describe a model of unified church, evangelism teams, Christian ecosystem mapping, and collaboration with businesses and nonprofits. A City Gospel Movements resource page also treats COSILoveYou as a model contributor for organization charts, board structure, and bylaws, and the linked Leadership Handbook is now retained.
Christian-nationalist relevance is bounded. Direct COSILoveYou records show partner / donor overlap with organizations that matter to the repo's Christian-right and Christian-nationalist corpus, especially Focus on the Family, New Life Church, and the Anschutz Foundation. The archived page pass strengthens the role labels: Focus is a 2022 community-partner listing; New Life is a church-partner cluster plus 2023 donor; Anschutz remains donor-only in COSILoveYou evidence. The records do not show COSILoveYou itself as a political mobilization shop, electioneering actor, or explicit Christian-nationalist organization.
COSILoveYou's public revenue history shows growth from about $78k in 2018 to roughly $666k in 2024, with the strongest filing-grade figures available for 2021-2023.
The direct 2023 Form 990 gives:
$512,401;$509,044;$461,814;$47,230;$321,090;$0;13;12;5;4,780.The 2023 named Schedule B contributors total $165,419. This is not a full donor list; it is a list of contributors meeting Schedule B thresholds in a client-copy PDF posted by the organization.
The recovered public 2024 filing gives:
$664,282;$663,256;$574,322;$88,934;$410,024;$0;9;6;4,780.Its Schedule B is visible but redacted. The public rendering does not disclose contributor names or amounts.
The archived 2018 Form 990-EZ gives $78,382 in contributions and total revenue, $74,443 in expenses, and $33,550 in year-end net assets. Its Schedule B names Chris Jenkins ($30,000), Discovery Christian Church ($8,000), Red Rock Church ($14,897), and First Presbyterian Church ($10,000). The same filing lists Blessing Mobolade as executive chairperson, Gregory Lindsey as secretary, and Jason Perkins as vice chair / treasurer.
The partner page adds a stated funding model:
.5% of annual or missions budget.That partner-tier model helps explain likely recurring funding streams, but it does not prove payment by any particular listed partner unless matched to Form 990 donor names or other records.
The local and national sources fit together as follows:
1999 under Kevin and Andrew Palau toward a festival model with local-body-of-Christ service; CityServe became a vital part of CityFest movements; under Kevin Palau, the organization expanded to sustainable City Gospel Movements.What We Do page describes City Gospel Movements as building Evangelism Teams, mapping the Christian ecosystem, and joining churches, businesses, and nonprofits for citywide strategies.This supports describing COSILoveYou as a local implementation and peer-resource node in the Palau / City Gospel Movements ecosystem.
The March 2018 Leadership Handbook is a governance and movement-structure source, not a neutral outside description. It calls COS I Love You a 501(c)(3) City Gospel Movement and describes a board, Executive Chairperson, paid Executive Director, steering teams, leadership expectations, term rules, conflict-of-interest policy, and core initiatives.
The handbook materially supports the following claims:
2018.The handbook does not resolve the bylaw gap. Its table of contents and Appendix 1 heading refer to Board of Director Bylaws, but the recovered DOCX does not contain bylaw text before the conflict-of-interest appendix begins.
The archived 2019 partner page and 2024 church-partner sitemap show that COSILoveYou has maintained a broad church-partner roster across the archived period. The archive supports church-partner evidence for First Presbyterian Church, Woodmen Valley Chapel, multiple New Life campuses, Manna Church, Life.Church, Discovery / DCC, Red Rock Church, Solid Rock Christian Center, Centro Mundial de Alabanza, AGAPE Church, Colorado Christian Fellowship, Zeal Church, and many thinner single-role church listings.
The archived 2022 community-partner sitemap dates a community-partner URL set that includes Compassion in Jesus' name, Outreach, Focus on the Family, Life Network, BombBomb, Magneti, Homefix, Christian Care Ministry, FH Beerworks, Behr & Behr, Springs Rescue Mission, Pikes Peak SCLC, Pikes Peak United Way, Thrivent, Community Food Pantry, The Pando Collective, Silver Key, and Norwood.
The archived 2019 and 2022 leadership pages add governance-affiliation evidence. They list named board members, staff, and Movement Week steering-team members with affiliations such as Woodmen Valley Chapel, First Presbyterian, Discovery Church, Solid Rock Christian Center, Niche Coaching and Consulting, Centro Mundial de Alabanza, Christian Care Ministry, Catholic Charities, New Life Midtown, Zeal Church, AGAPE Church, Graham Oleson Advertising, and others. These are person-affiliation records, not proof that the affiliated institution appointed or controlled the COSILoveYou role.
Relationship labels should remain precise:
2018 and 2023 donor; board / steering affiliations through named people; Yemi Mobolade's First Presbyterian ministry bridge.2023 donor; 2022 team affiliation through New Life Midtown.2023 donor.2023 donor.2018 donor; church partner; board affiliation through Greg Lindsey.2018 donor; church partner; board affiliation through Jason Perkins.2023 donor, with naming variation preserved.2023 donor.2023 donor; not found as a partner-page listing in this pass.The dedicated matrix at cosiloveyou-archived-partner-role-matrix-2017-2024-2026-04-16 should be used for detailed role typing.
The follow-up found stronger reciprocal or partner-owned evidence for several targets:
Unity & Collaboration.2019 employee spotlight saying Kevin Daniels represented CCM through leading a citywide multichurch worship event with COS I Love You.The follow-up did not find direct partner-owned COSILoveYou evidence for Focus on the Family, Manna Church, Life.Church, or Life Network. For those rows, use COSILoveYou-side evidence, donor evidence, archived sitemap evidence, or QA caveats rather than upgrading the role label.
Focus on the Family:
2022 archived community-partner sitemap and current partner page.Anti-LGBTQ and describes its Christian-right infrastructure role.New Life Church:
2023 donor, 2019 partner-page assets, 2024 church-partner sitemap entries, and 2022 team affiliation through New Life Midtown.Anschutz Foundation:
2023 donor.Life Network:
2019 partner asset, 2022 archived community-partner sitemap, and current partner page.This pass did not find 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.
The sector-language in Yemi's City Gospel Movement page is relevant for later comparison because it says local churches and cultural leaders exercise faith and influence in every sector of society. The current source set does not establish Seven Mountains theology, dominionism, political-control strategy, or Christian-nationalist motive for COSILoveYou.
City Gospel Movement as a model / network relationship unless stronger evidence supports a separate local legal entity.2024 Form 990 XML or image be recovered from IRS, ProPublica, or the organization's site? ProPublica rendered full text is now recovered, but direct IRS XML/image remains missing.