Colorado · Nonprofit
GROWE FOUNDATION
GROWE FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,424 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($70,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $478k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Growe Foundation does
Mission
Garden to table empowers school communities with gardens and curriculum to engage all students in experiential outdoor education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Garden to table program: the garden to table program is an experiential outdoor education learning program provided to elementary schools in the boulder valley school district. Currently 18 schools in the boulder valley school district and more than 6,500 students are participating. The program engages students, parents and teachers by using on-site gardens to teach academic subjects through hand-on lessons. The program addresses health and environmental issues by teaching the importance of food choice, gardening skills and ecological knowledge by getting student involved in going nutritious food for their school communities. The colorado standards-based curriculum includes lesson plans for grades pre k through 5th grade.
$159,068 spent$28,262 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,068.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $162k to $89k (−45%).
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: 2022 81% · 2023 71% · 2024 57% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of GROWE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $26k → $27k.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GROWE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
GROWE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 GROWE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 64% · 2019 26% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 31% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of GROWE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
GROWE FOUNDATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k 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.
Against its field
GROWE FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GROWE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $166k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$166k
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 GROWE 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
81% 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 GROWE 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 GROWE FOUNDATION?
- GROWE FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,424 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($70,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $478,424 in grants to GROWE FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWE FOUNDATION?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWE 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.
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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 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing