Colorado · Nonprofit
THE GROWHAUS
THE GROWHAUS (Colorado) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,414,641 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($676,876). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What The Growhaus does
Mission
The mission of The Growhaus is to cultivate community-driven food justice through food access and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FOOD ACCESS: The GrowHaus distributed 1,048,170 pounds of fresh produce, reaching over 7,560 individuals in Denver experiencing food insecurity through strategic partnerships with Denver Public Library, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, Thriving Families, Tepeyac Community Health Center, and Thriving Families. As part of the organizations food access program, The GrowHaus redirected 194,643 pounds of high-quality rescued produce from landfills to community members homes.
$2,140,842 spentof which $1,404,686 as grants$205,005 earned by the program93% of program spendingCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS: The GrowHaus Promotora (community health specialists) team led 250 home visits, sharing lessons about healthy eating with over 1,000 neighbors in Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea, which included a curated curriculum for households with children. The team connected 125 households with SNAP benefits. During the school year and summer, The GrowHaus provides immersive opportunities and community classes for households with young children to instill the importance of a balanced diet and the agency that comes from making informed choices.
$156,621 spent$2,200 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,297,463.
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.
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 $3.0M to $4.1M (+38%).
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 6% · 2018 18% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 30% · 2023 15% · 2024 25% · 2025 38%. 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 9 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
William Pena
Interim chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $160k → $805k.
15 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 GROWHAUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
THE GROWHAUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 GROWHAUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 70% · 2019 21% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% — 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
26% of THE GROWHAUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
THE GROWHAUS draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 THE GROWHAUS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $238k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$238k
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 THE GROWHAUS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GROWHAUS: 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 GROWHAUS?
- THE GROWHAUS (Colorado) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,414,641 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($676,876). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GROWHAUS have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $5,414,641 in grants to THE GROWHAUS, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GROWHAUS?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $676,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GROWHAUS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 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