¶ COSILoveYou, CityServe, and City Gospel Movements chronology
This timeline tracks COSILoveYou from Palau / CityFest antecedents through Colorado Springs service, shelter, nonprofit, funding, and partner-network milestones. Dates are exact where filings or source pages provide exact dates and approximate where the source uses broader phrasing.
- Event: Palau sources say Kevin and Andrew Palau launched a new festival model.
- Relevance: CityFest history says this model increased focus on the local body of Christ uniting to serve city needs and that CityServe became a vital part of CityFest movements.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: COSILoveYou's current history says four churches from different denominations and backgrounds held
Bless the City, an interchurch service weekend, in late 2014.
- Relevance: One of the three origin streams for COSILoveYou / CityServe.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: COSILoveYou's history says its beginning came from three streams:
Bless the City, a church generosity series branded COSILoveYou, and a mayoral / senior-pastor homelessness-response convening.
- Relevance: Establishes COSILoveYou as a church-city coalition rather than only a later nonprofit brand.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: COSILoveYou says Mayor John Suthers invited senior pastors to contribute to Springs Rescue Mission's low-barrier shelter plan; Stu Davis and Yemi Mobolade worked together to convene church and city leaders.
- Relevance: Direct Yemi / Stu Davis / Springs Rescue Mission bridge.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: COSILoveYou's current history says
Bless the City was renamed City Serve.
- Relevance: Establishes CityServe as the service-program predecessor to later COSILoveYou programming.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: COSILoveYou's current history says 55 pastors invited their churches to contribute to Springs Rescue Mission's shelter project, raising
$1.2M toward the $1.5M needed.
- Relevance: Early church-funding and homelessness-response proof point.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: COSILoveYou says leadership teams from City Serve and the COSILoveYou church cohort founded a nonprofit.
- Event: The same source says Yemi Mobolade became board chair and Woodmen Valley Chapel served as fiscal sponsor.
- Relevance: Nonprofit formalization and Yemi leadership role.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Event: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer gives COSILoveYou's IRS ruling date as
2018-07-01.
- Relevance: Public-record nonprofit baseline.
- Source type: public filing / public record.
- Event: COSILoveYou's current history says Stu Davis became executive director.
- Event: ProPublica summary shows early filing revenue / contributions of
$78,382.
- Event: A March
2018 COS I Love You Leadership Handbook describes COSILoveYou as a 501(c)(3) City Gospel Movement and lays out its board, Executive Chairperson, Executive Director, steering-team model, conflict-of-interest policy, and core initiatives.
- Event: City Gospel Movements published an organizational-structure resource by COS I Love You on
2018-07-12 linking the Leadership Handbook.
- Relevance: Leadership and early finance baseline.
- Source type: institutional self-description; public filing / public record; governance handbook.
- Event: ProPublica 990EZ summary shows total revenue of
$133,414, including about $131k in contributions.
- Relevance: Early growth baseline.
- Source type: public filing / public record.
- Event: ProPublica summary shows total revenue of about
$344,785, dominated by contributions.
- Relevance: Growth baseline.
- Source type: public filing / public record.
- Event: Direct
2021 Form 990 shows $392,689 contributions / grants and $392,867 total revenue.
- Event:
2021 filing lists 12 voting / independent governing-body members, no employees, and 3,500 volunteers; Blessing Mobolade is listed as emeritus chairperson.
- Relevance: Governance and finance baseline.
- Source type: public filing / public record.
- Event: Direct
2022 Form 990 shows $487,482 contributions / grants and $487,859 total revenue.
- Event:
2022 program descriptions include back-to-school support, shelter-remodel initiative matching public/private investment with church contributions, school/nonprofit volunteer work, and worship/prayer gatherings.
- Relevance: Funding and program expansion.
- Source type: public filing / public record.
- Event: Direct
2023 Form 990 shows $512,401 contributions / grants, $509,044 total revenue, $461,814 expenses, and $321,090 year-end assets.
- Event: The posted
2023 client copy includes Schedule B contributors: Compassion International, First Presbyterian Church, Norwood Development Group, Anschutz Foundation, Life Church, Manna Church, Alpine Bank, and New Life Church.
- Event: The filing lists 13 voting governing-body members, 12 independent members, 5 employees, and 4,780 volunteers.
- Relevance: Strongest donor-name and governance year in the current retained record.
- Source type: public filing / public record.
- Event: ProPublica's rendered
2024 Form 990 gives $664,282 in contributions and grants, $663,256 in total revenue, $574,322 in total expenses, $410,024 end-of-year assets / net assets, and no liabilities.
- Event: The public rendered
2024 Schedule B redacts contributor names, addresses, and amounts.
- Event: COSILoveYou's 2025 impact report gives
2024 total revenue as $666,505.
- Event: The 2024 impact report says 77 unique churches were involved in CityServe Days and Backpack Bash, 36 churches served 48 public schools through SchoolConnect COS, and 52 churches hosted neighborhood gatherings.
- Relevance: Organization-controlled impact and scale claims.
- Source type: public filing / public record; institutional PR / official impact report.
- Event: COSILoveYou's 2025 impact report says CityServe involved 76 nonprofits served, 58 schools, 3,487 volunteers, 10,274 volunteer hours, 200 projects, 80 churches represented, 35 businesses sending volunteers, and
$357,431 monetary impact.
- Event: The same report says more than
$100,000 was raised from local churches to address winter shelter shortage.
- Relevance: Current program model and church-funding claim.
- Source type: institutional PR / official impact report.
- Event: As of this pass, COSILoveYou's partner page lists First Pres, Life.Church, Manna Church, multiple New Life campuses, Woodmen Valley Chapel, Focus on the Family, Life Network, Compassion, Norwood, Thrivent, and other partners.
- Event: A records-gap follow-up found reciprocal or partner-owned COSILoveYou / CityServe evidence for First Presbyterian Church, New Life Midtown, Woodmen Valley Chapel, Christian Care Ministry, and Norwood, while Focus, Manna, Life.Church, and Life Network remained unresolved on reciprocal evidence.
- Relevance: Current direct partner-network evidence.
- Source type: institutional self-description.
- Exact dates for
Bless the City, the church generosity series, the Suthers pastor meeting, and the 2017 nonprofit formation action.
- Exact dates and terms for Woodmen Valley Chapel fiscal sponsorship.
- Exact founding board roster and when Mobolade moved from board chair to emeritus chairperson.
- Direct IRS XML / image for the
2024 Form 990 and any unredacted 2024 donor details.
- Actual bylaws, first board minutes, and partner agreements / MOUs.