Hunger Free Colorado
Denver, CO · EIN 68-0551464. Reported 122 grants totalling $6,983,761 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Hunger Free Colorado, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $27,520. Half of what it reported fell between $15,025 and $60,000; the smallest was $5,232 and the largest $416,599. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mile High United Way Inc | Denver, CO | $1,370,654 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Resource Center Association Inc | Denver, CO | $902,285 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Food Bank for Larimer County | Loveland, CO | $531,682 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Food Justice for All | Denver, CO | $492,977 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | Aurora, CO | $319,285 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tri-County Health Department | Greenwood Village, CO | $275,595 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tri-County Health Network | Telluride, CO | $244,749 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Food Share Inc | Louisville, CO | $222,275 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pediatric Care Network Children's | Aurora, CO | $197,631 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan State University | Denver, CO | $189,659 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pitkin County Public Health | Aspen, CO | $170,276 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Benefits in Action | Lakewood, CO | $165,884 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Adams County Public Health | Brighton, CO | $124,096 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trailhead Institute | Denver, CO | $122,882 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arapahoe County Public Health | Greenwood Village, CO | $114,555 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Evergreen Christian Outreach | Evergreen, CO | $108,650 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jeffco Action Center | Lakewood, CO | $107,214 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kaizen Food Rescue | Englewood, CO | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Front Line Farming Inc | Denver, CO | $94,601 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jefferson County Public Health | Lakewood, CO | $87,801 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mountain Resource Center | Conifer, CO | $79,763 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado | Centennial, CO | $73,791 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $69,689 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Larimer County Public Health | Fort Collins, CO | $67,140 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Manna-the Durango Soup Kitchen | Durango, CO | $60,283 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eagle Valley Community Foundation | Vail, CO | $59,236 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Muslim Youth for Positive Impact | Broomfield, CO | $52,586 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Recoveryworks | Lakewood, CO | $48,227 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Food to Power | Colorado Springs, CO | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hope Communities Inc | Denver, CO | $44,987 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Onward a Legacy Foundation | Cortez, CO | $42,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Growhaus | Denver, CO | $35,364 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Calvary Church Golden | Golden, CO | $28,780 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sunrise Community Health | Evans, CO | $26,583 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| East Denver Food Hub | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The I Will Projects | Pueblo, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Care and Share Inc | Colorado Spgs, CO | $24,973 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ride Provide Inc | Arvada, CO | $19,775 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Raza Services Inc | Denver, CO | $18,235 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Place | Colorado Spgs, CO | $16,808 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Denver Inner City Parish Inc | Denver, CO | $15,580 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Community Economic Development Corporation | Denver, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Summit County Family Resource Center | Silverthorne, CO | $13,808 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memorial Regional Health | Craig, CO | $13,420 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Western Colorado University | Gunnison, CO | $13,374 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership Inc | Steamboat Springs, CO | $10,169 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Metro Community Provider Network Inc | Wheat Ridge, CO | $10,051 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Education Colorado | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Growing Home Inc | Westminster, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Hadanou Collective | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $9,427 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jovial Concepts | Lakewood, CO | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Full Circle of Lake County Inc | Leadville, CO | $7,079 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Small Town Project | Rocky Ford, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fort Lewis College | Durango, CO | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vive | Denver, CO | $5,232 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
36 of 57 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18 | $1,121,698 | $25,548 |
| 2021 | 29 | $1,861,666 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 38 | $2,349,083 | $28,688 |
| 2023 | 37 | $1,651,314 | $29,370 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $27,520 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hunger Free Colorado's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3840 York St Ste 245, Denver, CO, 80205.
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