· Public charity
Trailhead Institute
TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE advances innovation and collaboration in public and environmental health.
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 $10k12 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $894k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING COLORADO | $1,611,500 |
| FRAC - FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER | $60,000 |
| FRONT LINE FARMING | $50,000 |
| SMALL TOWN PROJECTCITY OF ROC | $45,000 |
| LA PUENTE HOME INC | $40,000 |
| LIFT UP OF ROUTT COUNTY | $40,000 |
| THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE | $39,243 |
| MO BETTA GREEN MARKETPLACE | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF GRAND JUNCTION | $25,000 |
| THE GROWHAUS | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $22,500 |
| FOOD TO POWER | $22,500 |
| MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER | $20,000 |
| BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
204 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 143 since wound down; 10 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FLFront Line Farming4× · 2020–2024 · $708k · revenue +188%
- KFKAIZEN FOOD RESCUE5× · 2020–2024 · $367k · revenue ×12
- VEVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $304k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- ECE-SQUARED COMMUNICATIONS GROUPone grant, 2023 · $370k
- PFPUEBLO FOOD PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $85k
- EAEASTSIDE ACTION SUPPORT TEAMone grant, 2021 · $80k
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.
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
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…
Hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.
The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.
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.
Kitchen One 4 One is organized exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily to feed the homeless and underserved. Kitchen One 4 One operates a food truck that distributes free tacos and soft drinks in Downtown Denver as well as…
To provide charitable and humanitarian support and services in the form of food, clothing, housing and training in the areas of health, hygiene, basic education, employment development & training to the underprivileged, needy and oppressed…
How this is measured
302 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. 302 of the 550 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FEEDING COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Front Line Farming ↗
- Who funds KAIZEN FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds Mancos Valley Resources ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD ↗
- Who funds Regional Institute Health Environmental Leadership ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds SMALL TOWN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Pueblo Cooperative Care Center ↗
- Who funds REVISION ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM YOUTH FOR POSITIVE IMPACT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Denver Inner City Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HARVEST MOUNTAIN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Struggle of Love Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
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: Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Colorado Trust · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Energy Outreach Colorado · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trailhead Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trailhead Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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