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Hunger Free Colorado
HUNGER FREE COLORADO exists to end hunger in colorado.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $406k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $630k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN | $259,941 |
| COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE | $150,000 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY | $122,162 |
| FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY | $89,163 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $86,584 |
| ADAMS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $68,037 |
| ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $60,542 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | $53,696 |
| NOURISH COLORADO | $42,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,357 |
| MUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT | $29,295 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $29,159 |
| TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE | $26,916 |
| FRONT LINE FARMING | $25,633 |
| PITKIN COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $23,542 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +52%- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer County6× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +21%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES6× · 2020–2025 · $447k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CECALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $29k
- TITHE I WILL PROJECTSone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -57%
- EDEAST DENVER FOOD HUBone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespan Local Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lamar Unidos Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds FOOD JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Front Line Farming ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds KAIZEN FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERYWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) ↗
- Who funds ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Denver Inner City Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hunger Free Colorado funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.