Colorado · Nonprofit
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,231 to it, the largest being Redline ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Kitzmiller-Bales Trustlocal
- Lor Foundation Incportfolio match
- Park County Community Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
81% 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.
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kitzmiller-Bales TrustlocalCO · funds 11 organizations near you
- Lor Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park County Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Five Wings Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Ants Pants Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wolcott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stantonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The New Mexico Farmers Marketing Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bee Vradenburg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William H and Velma C Gerber TrustlocalKS · funds 13 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.
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
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.
Public support
95%
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 GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION 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 GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC?
- GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,231 to it, the largest being Redline ($30,000). 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 $150,231 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?
- Redline is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 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.
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 9funders 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