Colorado · Public charity
Hunger Free Colorado
HUNGER FREE COLORADO exists to end hunger in colorado.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,479
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $259,941
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Hunger Free Colorado funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $2.3M | 49% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.8M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $644k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $126k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Food & Nutrition$3.0MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$415kYouth Development$87kHousing & Shelter$65kCommunity Improvement$47kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mile High United Way Inc | $1,744,393 | 7 | 1% |
| Family Resource Center Association | $1,281,275 | 6 | 15% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $650,377 | 6 | 1% |
| Food Justice for All | $492,977 | 2 | 14% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $447,148 | 6 | 0% |
| Tri-County Health Network | $332,653 | 7 | 5% |
| Tri-County Health Department | $330,972 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Food Share Inc | $275,971 | 5 | 0% |
| Pitkin County | $243,397 | 7 | n/a |
| Pediatric Care Network Children's | $219,866 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mile High United Way Inc | $1,744,393 | 7 | 1% |
| Family Resource Center Association | $1,281,275 | 6 | 15% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $650,377 | 6 | 1% |
| Food Justice for All | $492,977 | 2 | 14% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $447,148 | 6 | 0% |
| Tri-County Health Network | $332,653 | 7 | 5% |
| Tri-County Health Department | $330,972 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Food Share Inc | $275,971 | 5 | 0% |
| Pitkin County | $243,397 | 7 | n/a |
| Pediatric Care Network Children's | $219,866 | 4 | n/a |
| Metropolitan State University of Denver | $218,818 | 5 | n/a |
| Board of County Commissioners of Adams County Colorado | $192,133 | 3 | n/a |
| Arapahoe County Department of Human | $175,097 | 3 | n/a |
| Benefits in Action | $165,884 | 2 | 3% |
| Coloradans for Food Justice | $150,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Trailhead Institute | $149,798 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc | $133,087 | 3 | 7% |
| Front Line Farming | $120,234 | 4 | 2% |
| Evergreen Christian Outreach | $108,650 | 2 | 2% |
| Jeffco Action Center | $107,214 | 2 | n/a |
| Kaizen Food Rescue | $105,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Colorado State University | $100,046 | 3 | n/a |
| County of Jefferson State of Colorado | $95,116 | 5 | n/a |
| Mountain Resource Center | $87,327 | 3 | 3% |
| Larimer County Public Health | $84,916 | 4 | n/a |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $83,369 | 6 | 1% |
| Muslim Youth for Positive Impact | $81,881 | 3 | 2% |
| Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado | $73,791 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope Communities Inc | $65,018 | 3 | 1% |
| Recoveryworks | $56,823 | 3 | 1% |
| The Growhaus | $45,570 | 3 | 1% |
| Food to Power (Fka Colorado Springs Food Rescue) | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Onward a Legacy Foundation | $42,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Nourish Meals on Wheels | $42,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Denver Inner City Parish Inc | $33,971 | 2 | 1% |
| La Raza Services Inc | $31,025 | 3 | 0% |
| Calvary Episcopal Church | $28,780 | 1 | n/a |
| The Place | $27,825 | 3 | 0% |
| Sunrise Community Health | $26,583 | 3 | 0% |
| East Denver Food Hub | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The I Will Projects | $25,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Care and Share Inc | $24,973 | 1 | 0% |
| Weld Food Bank | $24,564 | 2 | 0% |
| Western Colorado University | $23,418 | 2 | n/a |
| Fort Lewis College | $22,996 | 2 | n/a |
| Ride Provide Inc | $19,775 | 1 | 11% |
| Summit County Resource Center Dba Family & Intercultural Resource Center | $19,110 | 2 | 0% |
| Full Circle of Lake County Inc | $16,002 | 2 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $15,055 | 2 | n/a |
| West Community Economic Development Corp | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Memorial Hospital | $13,420 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifespan Local Inc | $13,149 | 1 | 0% |
| Revision | $11,271 | 1 | n/a |
| Metro Community Provider Network Inc | $10,051 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Education Colorado | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Hadanou Collective | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Growing Home Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lamar Unidos LLC | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jovial Concepts | $7,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Small Town Project | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vive | $5,232 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hunger Free Colorado supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.
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.
Trailhead InstituteCO59.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Trailhead Institute · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · The Colorado Trust · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation
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.
About Hunger Free Colorado
- How much does Hunger Free Colorado give?
- Hunger Free Colorado reported 36 grants totaling $1,367,919 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Hunger Free Colorado fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (33%), Health (23%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Hunger Free Colorado's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Mile High United Way Inc ($1.7M), Family Resource Center Association ($1.3M), The Food Bank for Larimer County ($650k).
- Does Hunger Free Colorado fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hunger Free Colorado?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trailhead Institute, The Colorado Health Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Hunger Free Colorado based?
- Hunger Free Colorado is based in CO.
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