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Hunger Free Colorado

HUNGER FREE COLORADO exists to end hunger in colorado.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$260k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.0MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$415kYouth Development$87kHousing & Shelter$65kCommunity Improvement$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

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
$19,479
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 8%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $85k → 7%FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CTR: $14k → 9%LAMAR UNIDOS: $9k → 19%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $81k → 7%FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CTR: $5k → 9%THE PLACE: $11k → 9%THE PLACE: $9k → 9%THE PLACE: $7k → 9%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN: $260k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN: $236k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN: $225k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN: $225k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN: $216k → 12%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSN: $119k → 12%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 43 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
14

Total granted

$8.6M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

65%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +52%
  • TF
    The Food Bank for Larimer County
    6× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +21%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $447k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CE
    CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
  • ED
    EAST DENVER FOOD HUB
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TI
    THE I WILL PROJECTS
    one 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.

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
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
UpRoot Colorado

UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…

Food & Nutrition
3
Metro Caring

Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…

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4
Hunger Free Colorado

Hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.

Food & Nutrition
5
Northern Colorado Foodshed Project

To grow colorado's food system to be more productive, accessible and secure.

Food & Nutrition
6
Nourish Colorado

Nourish colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. we pursue systemic changes through state…

Health
7
Northern Colorado Food Cluster

To create a healthy community through a resilient, local food system and to support and promote local food production, distribution, and consumption in northern colorado.

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8
Feeding Our Community Ourselves Inc

Build community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using mostly local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients

Food & Nutrition
9
Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health
10
Denver Food Rescue

To reduce food waste and increase healthy food access with denver residents.

Food & Nutrition
11
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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12
Feeding Colorado

The mission of feeding colorado, which represents the five feeding america food banks in the state, is to improve food security in colorado through policy, advocacy, partnership, and education.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespan Local Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD JUSTICE FOR ALL: $492,977 · OtherFOOD JUSTICE FOR ALLTRI-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $330,972 · OtherTRI-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTPITKIN COUNTY: $243,397 · OtherPITKIN COUNTYPEDIATRIC CARE NETWORK CHILDREN'S: $219,866 · OtherPEDIATRIC CARE NETWORK CHILDREN'SMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $218,818 · OtherMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DEN…BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ADAMS COUNTY COLORADO: $192,133 · OtherBOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ADA…ARAPAHOE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN: $175,097 · OtherARAPAHOE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMANCOLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $150,000 · OtherJEFFCO ACTION CENTER: $107,214 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,046 · Other+21 more: $719,013 · Other+21 moreMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,744,393 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY I…EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $67,352 · Philanthropy+1 more: $13,149 · PhilanthropyThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $650,377 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Lar…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $447,148 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCK…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $275,971 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE …Front Line Farming: $120,234 · Food & NutritionFront Line FarmingKAIZEN FOOD RESCUE: $105,000 · Food & NutritionKAIZEN FOOD RESCUE+4 more: $136,537 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $1,281,275 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CENT…BENEFITS IN ACTION: $165,884 · Human ServicesBENEFITS IN ACTIONEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $108,650 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN …+3 more: $55,935 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $332,653 · HealthTRI-COUNT…TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $149,798 · HealthTRAILHEAD…Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc: $133,087 · HealthNorthwest…CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO: $73,791 · HealthCATHOLIC …RECOVERYWORKS: $56,823 · HealthRECOVERYW…SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $26,583 · Health+1 more: $10,051 · HealthMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: $87,327 · Community ImprovementFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $16,002 · Community ImprovementWEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 · Community ImprovementONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $42,500 · EducationTHE I WILL PROJECTS: $25,000 · EducationGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $10,000 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · Education
Other$2,949,533Philanthropy$1,824,894Food & Nutrition$1,735,267Human Services$1,611,744Health$782,786Community Improvement$118,329Education$87,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $1,744,393 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $1,281,275 over 6y, 15% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $650,377 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD JUSTICE FOR ALL: $492,977 over 2y, 14% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $447,148 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK: $332,653 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $275,971 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBENEFITS IN ACTION: $165,884 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTRAILHEAD INSTITUTE: $149,798 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc: $133,087 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetFront Line Farming: $120,234 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $108,650 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKAIZEN FOOD RESCUE: $105,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: $87,327 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $83,369 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT: $81,881 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO: $73,791 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $67,352 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITIES INC: $65,018 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRECOVERYWORKS: $56,823 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $45,570 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS: $42,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $33,971 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLA RAZA SERVICES INC: $31,025 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Place: $27,825 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $26,583 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE I WILL PROJECTS: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $24,973 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $24,564 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIDE PROVIDE INC: $19,775 over 1y, 11% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER: $19,110 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFULL CIRCLE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $16,002 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIFESPAN LOCAL INC: $13,149 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY PROVIDER NETWORK INC: $10,051 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJovial Concepts: $7,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVive: $5,232 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 63 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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