Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION
COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,182,138 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($650,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Schlessman Foundation Incshared funders
- National Restaurant Associationportfolio match
- The Laff Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 37% · 2018 22% · 2019 42% · 2020 14% · 2021 73% · 2022 30% · 2023 47% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $10k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION’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
COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 87% · 2022 50% · 2023 75% — 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
12% of COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 19% 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
COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Schlessman Foundation Incshared fundersCO · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- National Restaurant Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Laff Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canvas Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fairfield and Woods Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bardsley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolf Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Love Lucky Dog Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Vivian Sabel Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bruce Benson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chc Creating Healthier Communitiesshared fundersVA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 140 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Colorado Restaurant Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,182,138 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($650,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,182,138 in grants to COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing