Colorado · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT
MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,290,513 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($260,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Mountain Roots Food Project does
Mission
To cultivate a resilient food system in the gunnison valley by enhancing healthy connections between food, earth, and community by fostering knowledge, teaching skills, and providing opportunities that ensure access to affordable, nutritious food that is regionally based and sustainably produced.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy futures americorps - as a rural intermediary, we place 24-30 young adults in service within 8 rural food systems organizations across a 6- county region to gain career skills in education, agriculture, and food security, and help expand the scale and reach of programs across rural colorado.
$426,159 spentof which $6,005 as grants$89,966 earned by the program42% of program spendingRegenerative agriculture - models and teaches regenerative agriculture techniques on two community farms (1.5 acres) to grow 15,000 pounds of food for the community and train the next generation of beginning farmers.
$339,320 spent$114,538 earned by the program33% of program spendingFood security - addressing hunger and nutrition issues among marginalized and vulnerable populations through cooking education, five youth/senior/community gardens, and a food relief box program that provides 65,000+ pounds of food annually to people in need.
$161,566 spent$49,308 earned by the program16% of program spendingFarm to school - provides year round environmental and nutrition education to 2,500 rural mountain youth ages 4-18 through hands-on lessons during in-school, afterschool, and summer programs.
$97,021 spent$59,130 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,024,066.
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 2023 to 2024, from $933k to $1.3M (+35%).
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 14% · 2021 3% · 2022 40% · 2023 53% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $7k → $173k.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% 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 MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 29% · 2019 68% · 2020 23% · 2021 34% · 2022 44% · 2023 16% — 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
71% of MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
74% of MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $578k 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
MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.8M
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 MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT?
- MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,290,513 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($260,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,290,513 in grants to MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT 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 37 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