Colorado · Nonprofit
HUNGER FREE COLORADO
HUNGER FREE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,727,040 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,103,296). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Hunger Free Colorado does
Mission
Hunger Free Colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Client services: hfc's client services department makes it easier for people to access food resources using a multilingual food resource hotline, bilingual community- based outreach and a statewide network of outreach partner organizations. Our food resource hotline, mobile outreach team and our statewide partner network connected more than 30,000 individuals to nutritious food resources, including the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (wic), food pantries, and meal sites. Hfc and our partners together submitted online snap applications on behalf of more than 17,357 households while also helping them locate nearby and convenient food resources.
$3,008,512 spentof which $1,156,919 as grants$19,675 earned by the program71% of program spendingPolicy and advocacy: hfc led a grassroots coalition to secure continued funding for the healthy school meals for all program, which provides access to free meals to all colorado public school students, as well as funding for schools to purchase locally produced foods, equipment and training for more healthy, from- scratch cooking and wage boosts for front-line school nutrition professionals.
$550,301 spentof which $150,000 as grants13% of program spendingOrganizing: hfc has worked with more than 1,000 youth, parents, farmers and school nutritional professionals and organized dozens of listening and education sessions and advocacy trainings to collaborate and strategize on shaping school meals that are nutritious, culturally relevant and that incorporate colorado-grown and produced foods. Hfc is building a movement of community leaders dedicated to making sure all coloradans have access to nutritious, culturally relevant food, while also boosting colorado farmers and ranchers and creating stronger, more equitable local food systems.
$406,482 spentof which $61,000 as grants10% of program spendingOutreach & communication
$300,232 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,265,527.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $3.6M (+46%).
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: 2017 8% · 2018 27% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 57% · 2024 49% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HUNGER FREE COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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.
Chief executive
Marc Jacobson
CEO
Board chair
Adela Flores-Brennan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.5M.
15 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 HUNGER FREE COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
HUNGER FREE COLORADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
66% 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 HUNGER FREE COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 49% · 2019 47% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 61% · 2023 27% — 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
47% of HUNGER FREE COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
53% of HUNGER FREE COLORADO's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HUNGER FREE COLORADO's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HUNGER FREE COLORADO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.
- Federal Communications Commission$110k
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 HUNGER FREE COLORADO
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 HUNGER FREE COLORADO: 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 HUNGER FREE COLORADO?
- HUNGER FREE COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,727,040 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,103,296). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUNGER FREE COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $9,727,040 in grants to HUNGER FREE COLORADO, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNGER FREE COLORADO?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,103,296 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNGER FREE COLORADO 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 80 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