Colorado · Nonprofit
Fundamental Needs Inc
Fundamental Needs Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,797 to it, the largest being DEL E WEBB FOUNDATION ($205,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Fundamental Needs Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Arvada Economic Development Associationlocal
- The Encantado Foundationportfolio match
- Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997portfolio match
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.
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: 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of Fundamental Needs Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $35k → $296k.
4 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Fundamental Needs Inc’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
Fundamental Needs Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
25% 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 Fundamental Needs Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 71% · 2022 47% · 2023 17% — 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.
Where its funders are
Fundamental Needs Inc draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arvada Economic Development AssociationlocalCO · funds 62 organizations near you
- The Encantado Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Windy Pines Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Madge M & Joseph T Mohar Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Ligaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Educational Initiativesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Remy's Good Day Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared fundersAZ · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Santa Fe Community Foundationshared fundersNM · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- Golden Civic Foundation InclocalCO · funds 21 organizations near you
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 Fundamental Needs Inc
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fundamental Needs Inc: 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 Fundamental Needs Inc?
- Fundamental Needs Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,797 to it, the largest being DEL E WEBB FOUNDATION ($205,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fundamental Needs Inc have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,150,797 in grants to Fundamental Needs Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fundamental Needs Inc?
- DEL E WEBB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fundamental Needs Inc 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 30funders 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