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THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND

THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,331 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$39k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$57k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What The Big Red F Family Fund does

Mission

Provide emergency financial assistance to current and past employees of Big Red F Restaurant Group when they face an unexpected hardship.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided emergency financial assistance to current and past employees of Big Red F Restaurant Group when they faced an unexpected hardship and supported our community during the pandemic.

    $0 spentof which $34,700 as grants

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($319k) Expenses 100 ($285k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2021 Revenue 12 ($38k) Expenses 10 ($29k) Net assets 121 ($50k)2022 Revenue 16 ($50k) Expenses 16 ($47k) Net assets 127 ($53k)2023 Revenue 12 ($39k) Expenses 12 ($35k) Net assets 137 ($57k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (12)Expenses (12)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

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 $42k to $50k (+21%).

$42k
$50k
$53k
$57k
2020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’20
$9k
’21
$3k
’22
$4k
’23
0.0
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $92.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND’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

THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND.

49%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

51% of THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO
AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,317 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−51% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,317 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND: 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 THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND?
THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,331 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $12,331 in grants to THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BIG RED F FAMILY FUND 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 4 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