Colorado · Nonprofit
THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE
THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $627,131 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($166,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $627k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Interoots Initiative does
Mission
Interoots partnerships provide development support, funding, and access to expertise. We work with communities - on their own terms - cultivating sustainable solutions for self-identified needs.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Interoots Initiative partners with projects both domestically and internationally. Interoots works with communities - on their own terms - as they develop and implement sustainable solutions for self-identified needs. In pursuit of this mission, interoots works as a partner and facilitator, assisting in the development of systems of accountability unique to partner projects, and working to remove barriers between communities and the resources they need to achieve change. Ultimately, interoots steps aside once a project is finanically independent, thus redefining the legacies of charitable giving. Rather than designing, implementing and evaluating projects from the top down, interoots believes that communities know best what they need, and can accomplish these steps from the roots up. The 2025-26 fiscal year was the final year interoots initiative was in operation. They wound down operations and closed their doors as of 3/31/26.
$13,436 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,436.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $161k to $9k (−94%).
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.
100% of THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Ronald Kibirige Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $249k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 INTEROOTS INITIATIVE’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 INTEROOTS INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 INTEROOTS INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 45% · 2022 50% · 2023 40% — 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
60% of THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
64% of THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE'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 $227k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE's revenue fell 96% between 2019 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 68 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE
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
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE?
- THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $627,131 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($166,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $627,131 in grants to THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $166,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 13 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