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Food Bank of the Rockies

FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$38k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $28,989, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,853,955 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,824,966 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$3,105
Median grant
1
States reached
$184M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH PARK SENIOR INC - TEFAP$5,357
WELLSPRING CHURCH - TEFAP$4,928
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES - TEFAP$4,472
Individual grant recipient$4,468
LIFEBRIDGE INC - TEFAP$3,105
LOVE INC OF YAMPA VALLEY - TEFAP$1,777
SALVATION ARMY CENTENNIAL - TEFAP$1,777
MISSISSIPPI AVE BAPTIST CHURCH - TEFAP$1,777
CHURCH OF DESTINY-TEFAP$1,033
HARVEST BIBLE CHURCH ELIZABETH - TEFAP$295
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%STAR VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS USDA: $7k → 8%LIFEBRIDGE INC: $8k → 8%LIFEBRIDGE INC - TEFAP: $3k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES - TEFAP: $14k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES - TEFAP: $9k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES - TEFAP: $4k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES - TEFAP: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$642k · 18 repeat orgs$676k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +176% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
97

Total granted

$642k
$668k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+176%
+5%

Still filing today

22%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    ADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +176%
  • IF
    Integrated Family Community Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +393%
  • L
    LifeBridge
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • DO
    DEPT OF HUMAN SER GILPIN - TEFAP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k
  • WD
    WE DON'T WASTE 40TH AVE - TEFAP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $44k
  • WD
    WE DON'T WASTE GARDEN PLACE ACADEMY - TEFAP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $37k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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2
Adams County Food Pantry
Food & Nutrition
3
Crisis Breadbasket

Provide food to families in need within the local area.

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4
Community Food Bank

To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.

Food & Nutrition
5
Hebron Interfaith Human Services Inc

Hebron Interfaith Human Services Inc serves as a resource to the community in times of crisis and need and assists people to regain their self-sufficiency. Food Assistance: During the year approximately 240,000 lbs of food were provided…

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6
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
7
Bread of Life Community Services
Food & Nutrition
8
South County Community Food Bank

Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county

Food & Nutrition
9
All Faiths Pantry

The mission of All Faiths Pantry is to alleviate hunger by delivering nutritious groceries to low-income seniors and others of any age with mobility challenges at no cost to the recipient.

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

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11
Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

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12
Waushara County Food Pantry Inc

We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Secor; the most unlike its peers is Core Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 118 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ACTION CENTER - TEFAP: $83,798 · OtherTHE ACTION CENTER - TEFAPTHE SALVATION ARMY DELTA SERVICE EXTENSION-TEFAP: $76,093 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY DELTA SERVICE EXTENSION-TEFAPDEPT OF HUMAN SER GILPIN - TEFAP: $53,069 · OtherDEPT OF HUMAN SER GILPIN - TEFAPWE DON'T WASTE 40TH AVE - TEFAP: $43,998 · OtherCOMMUNITY MINISTRY SW - TEFAP: $42,189 · OtherWE DON'T WASTE GARDEN PLACE ACADEMY - TEFAP: $36,999 · Other+105 more: $649,361 · Other+105 moreFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ENDOWMENT FUND: $225,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKI…ADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $39,646 · Food & NutritionADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY…Integrated Family Community Services: $31,306 · Human ServicesLifeBridge: $11,373 · Human ServicesSTAR VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $6,526 · Human ServicesCORE INC: $13,646 · ReligionGOSHEN HELP: $5,353 · Housing & Shelter
Other$985,507Food & Nutrition$264,646Human Services$49,205Religion$13,646Housing & Shelter$5,353

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ENDOWMENT FUND: $225,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $39,646 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $31,306 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCORE INC: $13,646 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetLifeBridge: $11,373 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSTAR VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $6,526 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGOSHEN HELP: $5,353 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
  • Who funds CORE INC ↗
  • Who funds LifeBridge ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Food Bank of the Rockies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Bank of the Rockies. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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