Colorado · Nonprofit
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,731 to it, the largest being Anschutz Family Foundation ($31,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $350k
What Grassroots Foundation Inc does
Mission
Grassroots foundation provides a community center and park where individuals, groups and organizations can convene to engage in social and recreational opportunities, health maintenance and prevention activities, and educational and cultural endeavors as determined by ongoing community needs assessments. The overal goals of grassroots are to bring recreational facilities to a rural area, to encourage new people to come here and for current residents to stay in a depopulating area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Funds are used to bring the education of art to rural schools throughout the surrounding area to enrich the lives of the students as well as expand youth and family wellness programming.
$96,410 spent100% of program spendingThe liberty rural learning cooperative (lrlc) initiates civically connected art projects that build conversations, support multi-cultural understanding and amplify knowledge exchange within the high plains region. Lrlc, founded in 2016, has brough various dynamic place-based applied rural arts programs to over seven highschools in northeast colorado. The applied rural arts program is centered around three main topics; the study of cultural heritage and local traditions found int he american high plains region; communal and cooperative education practice and skills-based learning and vocational training. Grassroots foundation has made a strong rebound post covide with impactful engagement. The meadowland market at prairie futures regenerative agricultural community garden supported local vendors; exapnded cutltural programming with live music, writing and weaving activities and successfully brough the community together in celebration and economic activation.
Grassroots foundaiton provides a community center and park where individuals, groups and organizations can convene to engage in social and recreational opportunities, health maintenance and prevention activities and educational and cutltural endeavours.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,410.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $397k to $323k (−19%).
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.
92% of GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION 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
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 87% · 2021 71% · 2022 43% · 2023 95% — 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
75% of GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
82% of GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
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 GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC
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.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC?
- GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,731 to it, the largest being Anschutz Family Foundation ($31,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $158,731 in grants to GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC?
- Anschutz Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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