Colorado · Nonprofit
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 186 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,017,241 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($2,616,243). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Collins Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Caring for Colorado Foundationshared funders
- Slifer Smith & Frampton Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $817k → $3.3M.
38 of 186 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 186 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
51% of EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
71% 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 $6.2M that is directly attributable, 53% 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 18 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.
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 186 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Collins Foundationlocalportfolio matchMO · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Caring for Colorado Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Slifer Smith & Frampton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fairfield and Woods Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schlessman Foundation Incshared fundersCO · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Early Childhood Council of Boulder CountylocalCO · funds 25 organizations near you
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- Ray Lanyon FundlocalMT · funds 27 organizations near you
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 147 organizations that share your funders
- Nextfifty Initiativeshared fundersCO · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Community Foundation of Northern Coloradoshared fundersCO · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Gates Family Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 96 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 EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
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
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: 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 EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION?
- EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 186 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,017,241 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($2,616,243). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% 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 186 organizations giving $21,017,241 in grants to EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION, 121 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION?
- COMMUNITY FIRST 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.
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 186funders 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