Colorado · Nonprofit
Front Line Farming
Front Line Farming (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,933,943 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,107,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Front Line Farming does
Mission
Front Line Farming, as part of our commitment to education, advocacy, and food systems, fiscally sponsors Project Protect Food Systems Workers. This project works directly with essential food workers to document and share their experiences, raise public awareness about their strengths and the challenges they face, advocate for fair treatment and protection, and provide immediate financial support, especially for those workers who keep Colorado's food system running.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Front Line Farming, as part of our commitment to education, advocacy, and food systems, fiscally sponsors Project Protect Food Systems Workers. This project works directly with essential food workers to document and share their experiences, raise public awareness about their strengths and challenges, advocate for fair treatment and protection, and provide immediate financial support, especially for workers who keep Colorado's food system running.
$842,170 spent$1,039,684 earned by the program52% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$654,683 spent$415,139 earned by the program40% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$131,260 spent$348,468 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,628,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $207k to $2.2M (+945%).
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: 2021 79% · 2022 37% · 2023 43% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Front Line Farming’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Fatuma Emmad
Executive Director
Board chair
Ramon Parish
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $768k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Front Line Farming’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
Front Line Farming leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 Front Line Farming.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of Front Line Farming's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 45% 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
95% of Front Line Farming's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $614k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Front Line Farming has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Front Line Farming
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Front Line Farming: 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 Front Line Farming?
- Front Line Farming (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,933,943 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,107,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Front Line Farming have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,933,943 in grants to Front Line Farming, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Front Line Farming?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,107,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Front Line Farming 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 22 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