Colorado · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT
WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,548,279 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,422,820). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 117
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Women's Bean Project does
Mission
To change women's lives by providing stepping stones to self-sufficiency through social enterprise.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Women's Bean Project offers transitional employment opportunities with a wrap around program to women who come from backgrounds of chronic unemployment, poverty, or displacement. The women participating in the program produce soups, baking goods, gift boxes and other nutritional food items. In addition, they also attend computer classes, trauma skills classes, life skills classes, job coaching, and are provided with individual case management and assessments. The program provides the basic skills for them to get and keep permanent employment. While women work in a gourmet food manufacturing business, they learn interpersonal skills needed to function independently in the workplace and community. These tools empower women to create better lives for themselves and provide their families with hope. (continued on sch o)our mission is to provide our women with steppingstones to self-sufficiency.
$2,127,548 spent$472,903 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,127,548.
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.
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 $2.6M to $7.4M (+189%).
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 16% · 2018 8% · 2021 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Christine Jochim
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $440k → $1.4M.
24 of 117 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 117 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
WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% 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 WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 18% · 2019 15% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 16% · 2023 22% — 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
50% of WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Bean Factory · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: 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 WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT?
- WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,548,279 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,422,820). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 117 organizations giving $8,548,279 in grants to WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,422,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 117 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