Colorado · Nonprofit
UpRoot Colorado
UpRoot Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,371 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($123,633). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $598k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $752k
- Net assets
- $334k
What UpRoot Colorado does
Mission
UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect with the local food system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gleaning Programs are UpRoot Colorados primary programmatic focus. Gleaning entails harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural foods, increasing the nutrition security of Colorado residents, educating the community about agriculture and food systems, and supporting the resilience of farmers. In 2025, UpRoot expanded the capacity of our Gleaning Programs with increased staff and volunteer engagement around Colorado. UpRoots Gleaning Programs resulted in the harvest and redistribution of more than 206,000 pounds of surplus, nutrient-dense food being recovered and redistributed to people facing food/nutrition insecurity. We collaborated with 68 farms and served 111 hunger-relief sites, and 523 volunteers contributed 1,972.5 hours of time towards a less wasteful and more equitable food system.
$299,448 spent79% of program spendingUpRoot Colorado provided fiscal sponsorship to the Tool Library in 2025. The Tool Library was formed to provide a sounding board to the countless conversations that have taken place in agricultural circles and establish a concrete platform for tool sharing, specifically for agricultural-related specialized tools within the Boulder County Community. Many individuals and organizations have played a part in helping this idea to come to life along the northern Front Range and in Boulder County including Boulder County Farmers Market, Mad Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and UpRoot Colorado.
$42,108 spent11% of program spendingPartnership with City and County of Denver to facilitate the installation of urban gardens and delivery of horticulture programs at the La Paz micro-community site in support of Mayor Johnstons All in Mile High City- Wide Goals. In addition, this work will advance CASRs Food & Climate Justice initiatives which are supported by the Climate Protection Fund.
$35,185 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $376,741.
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.
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 $251k to $349k (+39%).
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: 2023 8% · 2024 29% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UpRoot Colorado’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
John Brett
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $197k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 UpRoot Colorado’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
UpRoot Colorado has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
72% 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 UpRoot Colorado.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 40% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% — 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
29% of UpRoot 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
59% of UpRoot Colorado'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 $310k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
UpRoot Colorado has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UpRoot 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 UpRoot 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 UpRoot Colorado?
- UpRoot Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,371 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($123,633). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UpRoot Colorado have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $752,371 in grants to UpRoot Colorado, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UpRoot Colorado?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $123,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UpRoot 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 29 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