Colorado · Nonprofit
NOURISH COLORADO
NOURISH COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,038,689 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($3,169,059). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Nourish Colorado does
Mission
Nourish Colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. We pursue systemic changes through state and federal policy advocacy, managing innovative programs, and developing community partnerships and grassroots networks to employ multiple-win strategies that rebalance the food system and create nutritious food environments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy food incentives: in 2024, double up food bucks (dufb) partnered with 110 sites across colorado to support snap shoppers. Participants earned up to 20 per day in additional dollars for colorado-grown fruits, vegetables, and dry beans. Collectively, shoppers redeemed nearly 1 million in incentives statewide. This year also marked the launch of the colorado snap produce bonus (cspb) in partnership with cdhs. To date, cspb includes 41 farmers, 5 brick-and- mortar retailers, and 36 direct-to-consumer outlets (farmers markets, farm stands, and on-farm stores). Through this program, snap shoppers can receive up to 60 per month in additional benefits when purchasing fruits and vegetables at participating sites. Colorado nutrition incentive program highlights: - distributed 225,000 in fresh produce by directly partnering with 27 farmers and aggregators. In total, 111 farms were impacted through direct contracts or aggregator partnerships. - served wic participants and older adults through 27 agencies across 21 counties, including the southern ute and ute mountain ute nations. - invested over 340,580 into the colorado food economy through hyperlocal food purchases. The majority of…
$2,096,555 spentof which $1,396,897 as grants48% of program spendingNutrition food education: Nourish Colorado's nutrition education team implemented statewide cooking matters programming to improve healthy eating behaviors and reduce food insecurity among snap-eligible coloradans. Programming combined direct education, policy, systems, and environmental change strategies, and technology-based innovations to reach colorado communities, including urban, rural, frontier, and tribal populations. Through partnerships with over 20 community-based organizations, nourish provided in-person and online cooking matters curricula, engaging more than 4,000 participants across colorado. Additional efforts supported healthy food access initiatives in pantries, retail settings, farmers markets, and produce prescription programs, ensuring that making the healthy choice was the easy choice. Evaluation tools and state reporting systems were used to maintain programs.
$1,311,754 spent30% of program spendingHealthy food in institutions: following the passage of proposition ff in november 2022, our team entered 2023 with a clear focus: to prepare a comprehensive plan in anticipation of the upcoming request for proposals from the colorado department of education (cde). Our goal was to position ourselves as the statewide training and technical assistance provider for the local food program (lfp). Throughout 2023, we dedicated time and resources to building a strategic response to the anticipated contract, which was expected to be released in spring 2024. However, in january 2024, we received unexpected news. Due to a significant increase in the number of students accessing free meals, funding priorities shifted. The statewide lfp contract-and all associated grants-were put on hold to ensure that every child could continue receiving meals at no cost. This development meant that not only was the statewide program paused, but additional funding for schools to purchase local food was no longer available. In june 2024, cde informed us that our existing lfp technical assistance contract would be extended for another year. This allowed us to continue supporting school districts already…
$619,082 spentof which $162,467 as grants$58,510 earned by the program14% of program spendingThrough our healthy food policy work, Nourish Colorado advances comprehensive federal and state level policy agendas that support a just and nutritious food system. We manage the food bill action team, which meets virtually monthly and includes market managers, state leaders, and community members who are focused on learning about policy and brainstorming new ideas that could be implemented through federal and state legislation. I n 2024, we worked with state legislators and the governor's office to secure additional funds for the local food program for schools, and created a permanent state program, the healthy food incentive program. Additionally, nourish traveled multiple times to washington dc to meet with the offices of federal legislators and secured co-sponsorships from several members of the colorado delegation on bills to support snap incentives, senior nutrition programs, and local food systems
$315,640 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,343,031.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.7M to $4.0M (−30%).
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 5% · 2018 29% · 2019 64% · 2020 60% · 2021 53% · 2022 57% · 2023 72% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NOURISH COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Ashley Thurow Cpa
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $858k.
4 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 NOURISH COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
NOURISH COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 NOURISH COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 77% · 2019 62% · 2020 38% · 2021 41% · 2022 52% · 2023 62% — broadly stable.
“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
23% of NOURISH COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
66% of NOURISH 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. $3.6M 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
NOURISH COLORADO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NOURISH COLORADO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$7.6M
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 NOURISH 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOURISH 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 NOURISH COLORADO?
- NOURISH COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,038,689 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($3,169,059). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOURISH COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $9,038,689 in grants to NOURISH COLORADO, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOURISH COLORADO?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,169,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOURISH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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