· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 65 grants below total $1,375,520 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,559,364 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $183,844 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $679k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $542k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +69% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- BCBoulder County Farmers Market8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +69%
- FFFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $245k · revenue +8%
- SLSAN LUIS VALLEY LOCAL FOODS COALITION5× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- CCCHAFFEE COUNTYone 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.
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.
To grow colorado's food system to be more productive, accessible and secure.
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.
To provide equitably resource producers and other food organizations focused on food security opportunities programs and services aimed at effective stewardship of resilient food ecosystems and related charitable programs and services…
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…
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…
To build an abundant, resilient, and valued local food system that supports our landscape, our farmers, ranchers, and food artisans, and our community.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The Josephine County Farm Collective connects our community with access to local agricultural products and educational opportunities while strengthening the economic viability of producers.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Roots Food Project and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Institute for Resilience. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 127 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.
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 · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Hunger Free Colorado · The Denver Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative
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 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.
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.