Colorado · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE
MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,725 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($11,725). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Museum of Food and Culture does
Mission
Museum education - charitable purposes
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Cooking through Cultural Heritage newsletter - A monthly newsletter for school communities celebrate diverse cooking techniques, histories, and cultures. Estimated reach: 5,000 students, faculty, and family members.
$8,064 spent28% of program spendingSchool Programs - Facilitate educational programs, research projects, and special events at elementary, middle, and high schools. Estimated reach: 550 students, faculty, and family members.
$10,368 spent36% of program spendingArt Workshops and Pop-up Exhibits - Exploring your relationship with food through artand cultural history. Partners include the Denver Public Library, History Colorado, and Lafayette History Museum. Estimated reach: 100 event attendees.
$10,368 spent36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,800.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $9k to $5k (−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.
77% of MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rachel Waugh
Founder & Executive Director
Board chair
Miriah Royal
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE’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
MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE.
“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.
Where its funders are
54% of MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE
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.
Public support
100%
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 MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE: 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 MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE?
- MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,725 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($11,725). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,725 in grants to MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF FOOD AND CULTURE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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