Colorado · Nonprofit
GRACEFULL FOUNDATION
GRACEFULL FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,836 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($332,644). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $812k
- Net assets
- $0
What Gracefull Foundation does
Mission
Form 990, part iii, line 1 - primary exempt purpose to cultivate a healthier, more connected and stronger community by providing a home in littleton, colorado where people of all backgrounds can gather, eat well and be inspired to give back. Gracefull Foundation provides guests the ability to eat a healthy meal paying what-they-can including nothing, the ability for all to donate to the foundation to pay for someone elses meal, and volunteer opportunities. Gracefulls priorities also include acknowledgment and work to address the challenges of loneliness, food insecurity, homelessness, substance abuse disorder, and mental health while collaborating through strategic partnerships for collective greater impact, to provide access to resources to community members, to educate and and encourage people to grow in empathy and perspective for others. Gracefull Foundation represents and advocates for those on the margins within our community while providing an outlet to encourage people to share their lived experiences. Since opening, we have served over 112,002 grace in action meals(free) to those in need and an additional 29,700 free meals through our monthly community breakfast program…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Gracefull Foundation ceased all program activities in 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Since opening, we have served over 112,002 grace in action(free) meals to those in need and an additional 29,700 free meals through our monthly community breakfast program and partnerships with other local non-profit organizations.
$476,027 spentof which $389,100 as grants$3,980 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $476,027.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $404k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Shantelle Mulliniks
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $310 → $125k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 GRACEFULL FOUNDATION’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
GRACEFULL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 GRACEFULL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 40% · 2021 79% · 2022 67% · 2023 42% — 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 GRACEFULL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
76% of GRACEFULL FOUNDATION'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 $197k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $615k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like GRACEFULL FOUNDATION
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
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACEFULL FOUNDATION: 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 GRACEFULL FOUNDATION?
- GRACEFULL FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,836 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($332,644). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRACEFULL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $811,836 in grants to GRACEFULL FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACEFULL FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $332,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACEFULL FOUNDATION 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 20 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