Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,403,534 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($855,729). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Community Food Bank does
Mission
The Community Food Bank advances community health and economic stability in mesa county by boosting nutritious food access and addressing root causes of food insecurity. Our vision is that every grand valley neighbor can access the abundant fresh foods they need to thrive and feel empowered to create more equitable, inclusive, and resilient local food systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organizational program services included distributing a total of 822,357 pounds of food providing 685,298 meals. This food access distribution was allocated to over 22,046 service visits serving 63,900 duplicated individuals who can visit up to 24 times per year (11,445 unduplicated individuals served). Over 2,300 food boxes were delivered to the most vulnerable community members 242,226 pounds of food were rescued from local grocery stores and restaurants -- making up around 25% of our annual food inventory. Average cost per meal is 0.25 (1.2 lbs of food = 1 meal), with annual food cost per service visit of 4.20 and per annual unique client served of just 25.
$921,523 spent77% of program spendingBilingual resource navigators conducted over 4,500 navigation sessions with specific engagements around snap and wic benefits, and direct application assistance to these crucial nutrition programs for over 100 households. This work also includes hosting a colorado mesa university social work intern, collaborating outreach across a multitude of community agencies and events, and piloting an innovative mobile market program paired with bilingual resource navigation. Cfb also distributed hundreds of nutritious recipes distributed both in-person at the pantry and available digitally on a newly created online catalogue.
$277,773 spent23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,199,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $614k to $1.1M (+76%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 25% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 14 funders, grant income rose $20k → $432k.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 COMMUNITY FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
81% 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 COMMUNITY FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 41% · 2019 26% · 2020 45% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of COMMUNITY FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
75% of COMMUNITY FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK?
- COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,403,534 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($855,729). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,403,534 in grants to COMMUNITY FOOD BANK, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOOD BANK?
- WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $855,729 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOOD BANK 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 33 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