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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.
$1.6M
Granted FY2024
65
Grants
4
Communities
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of NOURISH COLORADO’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
incent purchasepurchase locallylocally growngrown fruitsfruits vegetablesvegetables snapsnap recipients
2019
snap fruitsfruits veggies
2020
snap fruitsfruits veggies
2021
snap fruitsfruits veggies
2022
snap fruitsfruits veggies
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 65 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $679k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $542k
$12,128
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ELEPHANT CLOUD INC$175,010
- LEEVERS SUPERMARKETS INC$145,417
- DURANGO NATURAL FOOD COOPERATIVE I$117,458
- SYRACUSE MARKET$54,082
- BOULDER COUNTY FARMERS MARKET$50,008
- OGALLALA COMMONS INC$46,667
- SUNDRY DBA DECATUR FRESH LLC$41,388
- CITY PARK FARMERS MARKET LLC$30,014
- COLORADO AGRICULTURAL MARKETING COO$28,541
- COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY-SPONSORED$28,297
- WALSH COMMUNITY GROCERY STORE INC$25,750
- COOPERATIVE MARKETS INC$25,351
- AHAVAH FARM LLC$20,000
- LARIMER COUNTY FARMERS MARKET$18,811
- GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER$18,050
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 66 repeat orgs$926k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +165% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
66
40
Total granted
$6.5M
$645k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+165%
0%
Still filing today
24%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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
- BCBOULDER COUNTY FARMERS' MARKETS8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +69%
- FFFAIR FOOD NETWORK3× · 2020–2022 · $245k · revenue +60%
- VRVALLEY ROOTS FOOD HUB5× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- CCCHAFFEE COUNTY DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $58k
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF MONTBELLOone grant, 2017 · $55k
- BCBOULDER COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $48k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
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
2
Northern Colorado Foodshed Project
We exist to enliven northern colorado's food system, growing it to be more productive, accessible and secure.
Food & Nutrition
3
Sagrada Botanical Gardens
The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
Environment
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Food & Nutrition
5
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
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6
The Food Bank for Larimer County
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Food & Nutrition
7
Sustainable Growers
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8
Local Food Solutions
We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.
Food & Nutrition
9
Slow Food in the Tetons Inc
Slow food in the tetons works to grow the local and regional food economy by supporting producers, educating consumers and connecting them together in the spirit of good, clean, and fair food.
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10
Foodwise Community
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We achieve this through the operation of farmers markets and food education programs.
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11
Community Food Connections Inc
Support small farms and other businesses. Bring sustainable healthy products to the community.
Food & Nutrition
12
Bloomington Food Policy Council Inc
The Bloomington Food Policy Council is a group of community members committed to building food security by assessing the current food system, advocating policy changes to improve it, and educating the public on concrete steps we can all…
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Roots Food Project and the most unlike its peers is The Farm Collaborative. 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 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 32% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%3/114
the rest of the field
11%
2,965/25,929
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.
05the grantee network
29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,809,577Food & Nutrition$1,326,390Education$108,367Environment$52,980Human Services$26,462Arts & Culture$21,982Crime & Legal$15,649Youth Development$15,244
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.
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.
Trailhead InstituteCO72× affinity35 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 · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Hunger Free Colorado · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Wolcott Family Foundation · Virga 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 organisation NOURISH 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TELLURIDE FARMERS MARKET.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841550594 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on TELLURIDE FARMERS MARKET, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Nourish Colorado?
Find your warmest path to Nourish Colorado through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines