Missouri · Nonprofit
COLDWATER INC
COLDWATER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,277 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($63,166). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $254k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Coldwater Inc does
Mission
Building friendships. Fostering hope. Our mission is to build friendships that foster hope in our community while providing food and clothing for those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Produce distribution, in 2025, we distributed 90 produce trays semi-monthly during our friends days. This was a total of 43,200 pounds of healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. A $20,000 grant from jackson county missouri aids in the ongoing funding of this program.
$39,655 spentof which $2,500 as grants5% of program spendingIn 2025, our no hungry kids programs provided 10,764 food packs to students in the lees summit r7 school district. We worked closely with school counselors in 18 schools to determine how many students lacked adequate resources at home and needed food at homes during the weekend. We provided 9,303 summer lunches and 2,073 bbq meals in two low income neighborhoods. Food packs cost was $93,383 of the total expenses above. This program is supported by $15,084 in grants and proceeds from our drive out hunger golf tournament fundraiser.
$187,705 spentof which $15,084 as grants$38,492 earned by the program24% of program spendingIn 2025, we distributed 286,222 pounds of food during 5,716 visits to our food pantry. Our pantry offerings are comprised of items from harvesters, both purchased and given, donations from the community, purchased items and food from our grocery recovery program. We received $340,197 in donated food items. Our fundraiser crank out hunger bike ride funds this program.
$541,715 spentof which $10,800 as grants$35,829 earned by the program68% of program spendingOther programs include: friends day lunches, school supplies, diaper distribution program and a clothes closet.
$28,075 spentof which $29,848 as grants$93,434 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $797,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $362k to $907k (+150%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of COLDWATER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $24k → $19k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COLDWATER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COLDWATER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COLDWATER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 36% · 2019 48% · 2020 78% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of COLDWATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of COLDWATER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $103k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COLDWATER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLDWATER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLDWATER INC?
- COLDWATER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,277 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($63,166). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLDWATER INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $254,277 in grants to COLDWATER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLDWATER INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $63,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLDWATER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing