Colorado · Nonprofit
LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY
LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,578,706 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($894,097). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Life Inter Faith Team on Unemployment and Poverty does
Mission
Food assistance for the underemployed, unemployed and homeless.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lift-up provides food assistance once a month to the unemployed, underemployed, homeless and those that are struggling to make ends meet due to an unexpected expense. Lift-up also provides a hot meal to any in need through our extended table community dinners and sack lunches to kids 18 and under. We also provide prescription assistance, thrift store vouchers for clothing and basic household items, and bus vouchers for job interviews and doctors appointments. Lift-up has offices and food pantries in aspen, basalt, carbondale, glenwood springs, new castle, parachute, and rifle colorado. We also have a mobile food pantry location in debeque, colorado.
$3,513,946 spentof which $2,434,187 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,513,946.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $4.5M (+43%).
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 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $68k → $441k.
12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
83% 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 LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 40% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 47% · 2022 32% · 2023 31% — 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
53% of LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY'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 $693k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
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 LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY: 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 LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY?
- LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,578,706 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($894,097). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,578,706 in grants to LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY?
- ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $894,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE INTER FAITH TEAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 32 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