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COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE

COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being HUNGER FREE COLORADO ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$827k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$0
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Coloradans for Food Justice does

Mission

Coloradans for Food Justice is building community power by making sure that every eater in colorado has a voice to make transformative change that represents a more just food system by mobilizing values-driven voters statewide.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Coloradans for Food Justice (c4fj) established an issue committee with a focus on supporting two ballot measures, propositions ll and mm, that would retain and expand funding for healthy school meals for all as well as support the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap). C4fj rallied 150 organizations behind promoting the measures and through both a grassroots and media outreach campaign and was successful in securing support from voters for both measures at the november 4, 2025 election.

    $808,995 spentof which $6,100 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $808,995.

02The organization over time

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.

Board chair

Patience Kabwasa

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
2

From the IRS filings of COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE.

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE?
COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being HUNGER FREE COLORADO ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $170,000 in grants to COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE.
Who is the largest funder of COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE?
HUNGER FREE COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLORADANS FOR FOOD JUSTICE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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