Colorado · Nonprofit
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 193 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,183,785 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($2,616,243). 122 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 193
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Emergency Family Assistance Association does
Mission
Efaa helps those in our community whose immediate needs for food, shelter, and other basic necessities cannot adequately be met by other means, and supports their efforts toward financial stability and self sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The basic needs program provides various types of assistance to low income households in boulder county who are unable to meet their basic needs. Our target populations are low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities. Our participant's yearly average household income is approximately $15,634 for households without children, and $21,410 for families with children. People needing help are interviewed by resource navigators to assess their whole situation, including financial needs, food insecurity, medical insurance, access to benefits, children's needs, etc. In fy 2024 our resource navigators and volunteers conducted face-to-face interviews with families needing financial help and 3,577 households were served representing 8,571 individuals, including 2,957 children. Financial and budget counseling is provided, in addition to assessing the appropriateness of efaa's assistance. Efaa is able to directly provide food through our food bank and financial assistance to pay rent, deposits, utilities, transportation costs, emergency hotel stays, minor medical expenses, etc. Efaa referrals are made for longer term assistance to government programs or to other non-profit…
$7,502,733 spentof which $5,894,718 as grants77% of program spendingEfaa's short-term and transitional housing programs provide homeless families in boulder county with a safe place to live and resource navigation support in their efforts to attain financial stability and self-sufficiency. The families in our short-term housing program are housed in efaa apartments rent free for up to three months. During their stay, efaa provides intensive resource navigation, goal setting, savings plans and most living expenses, including household items, food, and transportation. Families save their incomes so when they leave the program, they have accumulated savings which they use to secure long-term, affordable housing. Families in our transitional housing program are housed in our apartments for up to two years, pay nominal rent and are required to work with a resource navigator to achieve self-identified goals (increased income, education, job training, etc.). Most of the families in our transitional program started in our short-term program. Ideally, when they move out, they have accumulated adequate savings to secure long-term housing, their families have stabilized, have increased their earnings ability and have experienced success at being good…
$1,823,247 spentof which $52,231 as grants$237,572 earned by the program19% of program spendingFamilies, and especially children, residing in efaa's housing are continually assessed for unmet needs during their stay. Children, in addition to their general family needs, are provided targeted program opportunities such as after school activities and homework help. The goal of the children, youth and family (cyf) program is to make sure that the needs of the children in our housing are being met during their stay with us and ensuring that the children's home life, education, and health are stable and progressing. The cyf program seeks to stop the cycle of homelessness by educating our families on how to promote a healthy and stable lifestyle for parents and their children. Efaa works closely with the school districts and teachers to make sure the children are attending school, receiving free lunch, getting program fees waived, free transportation to their school of origin, etc. In addition, we work with parents to encourage their active engagement with their children's school and teacher, which research shows is crucial in improving children's achievement levels. Also, educational and fun presentations are brought to our housing sites from museums and other organizatons.…
$270,937 spentof which $24,101 as grants3% of program spendingEfaa's strategic education and community outreach program aims to increase community awareness of key issues facing lower-income residents, influence public policies, initiatives and legislation, and give voice to participants on the issues affecting their lives. Community outreach efforts promote knowledge about, and access to, efaa services to vulnerable community members, civic organizations, potential volunteers and the general public. In addition, this program supports efaa's participant advisory committee (pac), which is a sub-committee of the board of directors and is made up of participants that utilize efaa's programs. The pac advises staff and the board on recommendations or issues with efaa's programs from a participant perspective.
$159,950 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,756,867.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $17M (+20%).
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 16% · 2019 15% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 17% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Julie Vandomelen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $817k → $3.3M.
40 of 193 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 193 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
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
80% 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 EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 19% · 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 15% — 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
50% of EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
70% of EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION'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 $6.3M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION?
- EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 193 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,183,785 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($2,616,243). 122 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 193 organizations giving $21,183,785 in grants to EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION, 122 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,616,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION 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 193 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing