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WEDONTWASTE INC

WEDONTWASTE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,369,818 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($837,767). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$25M
Funders on record
128
Grants received
$8.4M
Net assets
$13M
68/128 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Wedontwaste Inc does

Mission

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2024 the total number of servings of food and other items donated were 24,387,329 .These were distributed to local community-based non profit agencies at no cost. They in turn provide these items to individuals as deemed appropriate also at no cost.

    $20,376,789 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,376,789.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($29M) Expenses 100 ($29M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 63 ($18M) Expenses 64 ($18M) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 48 ($14M) Expenses 47 ($13M) Net assets 141 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 47 ($14M) Expenses 45 ($13M) Net assets 230 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 42 ($12M) Expenses 37 ($11M) Net assets 396 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 54 ($16M) Expenses 45 ($13M) Net assets 643 ($6.5M)2023 Revenue 59 ($17M) Expenses 49 ($14M) Net assets 954 ($9.6M)2024 Revenue 85 ($25M) Expenses 75 ($21M) Net assets 1281 ($13M)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (75)Net assets (1281)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 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $9.3M (+133%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$2.5M
$4.0M
$9.3M
$13M
$13M
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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.

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2018
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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of WEDONTWASTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 276 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$323k
’17
$75k
’18
$336k
’19
$900k
’20
$1.7M
’21
$2.6M
’22
$3.0M
’23
$3.2M
’24
2.0
months of
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.

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Listed1413101310121213
Joined·+5+0+4+2+2+2+5
No longer listed·6315024
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $218k → $1.9M.

20 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 WEDONTWASTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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

WEDONTWASTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left

50% 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 WEDONTWASTE INC.

10%
largest funder
25%
top three
~25
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 22% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 14% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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

52% of WEDONTWASTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

52% of WEDONTWASTE INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

WEDONTWASTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding WEDONTWASTE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.

Federal$1.6M
grants $1.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$810k
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k

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 WEDONTWASTE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC?
WEDONTWASTE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,369,818 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($837,767). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WEDONTWASTE INC have?
IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $8,369,818 in grants to WEDONTWASTE INC, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEDONTWASTE INC?
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $837,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEDONTWASTE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 128 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