Colorado · Nonprofit
VINDEKET
VINDEKET (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,510 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $453k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Vindeket does
Mission
To empower each of us to take ownership in the food cycle to restore our earth, our communities, and ourselves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
2025 was a year to be remembered. We increased the amount of food rescued to 2,228,545.85 pounds. We were able to move into our new home that we purchased at the end of 2024 after we completed a remodel and brought the facility up to code. Testimonials from our participants: "a gem and an invaluable resource that saves lives, not just food. I would say a good 80% of my groceries per month come from Vindeket. I've been shopping here almost a year, staff is amazing, food quality is good and worth it in every way to you/your community. So much more than a grocery store this is a community hub, where good- hearted, conscientious people volunteer, shop, connect, and make an impact by living in alignment with their values. Whether you're an environmentalist, frugalist, creative cook, stressed caretaker, volunteer, or concerned citizen, Vindeket is for you. Come help reduce food waste, reduce your carbon footprint, save money, inspire creativity, experiment with new foods, make a donation, and connect to the community. Lyric from the fort collins rescue mission (one of our non-profit partners) cooks food for residents at their shelter for men experiencing homelessness. She is able to…
$4,712,785 spentof which $4,390,241 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,712,785.
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 2023 to 2024, from $440k to $1.9M (+331%).
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: 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of VINDEKET’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Benjamin Jewell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $32k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 VINDEKET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 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
VINDEKET has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 VINDEKET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 28% · 2023 46% — 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
75% of VINDEKET's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 35% 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 VINDEKET'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 $153k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VINDEKET has grown faster than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VINDEKET
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
97% 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 VINDEKET: 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 VINDEKET?
- VINDEKET (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,510 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VINDEKET have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $452,510 in grants to VINDEKET, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VINDEKET?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VINDEKET 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 23 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