· Public charity
Hunger Free Colorado
HUNGER FREE COLORADO exists to end hunger in colorado.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- EDEAST DENVER FOOD HUBone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TITHE I WILL PROJECTSone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -71%
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.
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.
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Hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.
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How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hunger Free Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunger Free Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.
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