· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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 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 +69% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 127 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.
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nourish Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nourish Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.
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