Colorado · Nonprofit
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES (Colorado) receives grants from 716 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,290,481 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($18,979,050). 412 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176M
- Funders on record
- 716
- Grants received
- $105M
- Net assets
- $85M
What Food Bank of the Rockies does
Mission
Food Bank of the Rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The central distribution program of Food Bank of the Rockies serves approximately 623 hunger-relief programs in 32 counties including metropolitan denver and western colorado. Last year, the colorado distribution center distributed 73 million pounds of food and commodities - enough for our hunger relief partners to provide over 161,000 meals each day to children, older adults and families facing food insecurity.
$75,069,736 spent$13,354,368 earned by the program51% of program spendingFood Bank of the Rockies' food rescue program has worked to keep nutritious surplus food from being thrown away. We pick up highly nutritious food such as meat, dairy and produce from 688 local retailers throughout the state of colorado and distribute it to our partner agencies.
$23,263,285 spent16% of program spendingFood bank of wyoming works with approximately 150 nonprofit hunger-relief partners and signature programs that provide food and nutritious meals directly to our food insecure neighbors in all 23 counties. Last year, food bank of wyoming distributed over 12 million pounds of food and commodities. From small church pantries to large organizations with national support, food bank of wyoming's mission is to ignite the power of community and nourish wyoming neighbors facing hunger.
$22,589,901 spentof which $3,730,779 as grants$2,174,369 earned by the program15% of program spendingColorado mobile pantry
$4,330,349 spent3% of program spendingColorado food for kids
$3,740,855 spent$2,043,864 earned by the program3% of program spendingEveryday eats, funded by csfp
$3,991,889 spentof which $2,361,589 as grants$674,087 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe emergency food assistance program (tefap) is a federal program that helps supplement the diets of low-income americans by providing them with emergency food assistance at no cost.
$15,556,936 spentof which $13,761,587 as grants$737,437 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $148,542,951.
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.
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 $95M to $155M (+64%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 10% · 2020 14% · 2021 15% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 13% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Erin Pulling
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Christina Bowen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 91 funders to 304 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $13M.
67 of 716 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $3.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Food Bank of the Rockies Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 716 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
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
73% 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 28% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 24% — 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Food Bank of the Rockies Endowment Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES?
- FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES (Colorado) receives grants from 716 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,290,481 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($18,979,050). 412 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES have?
- IRS filings report 716 organizations giving $105,290,481 in grants to FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES, 412 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $18,979,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 716 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