The Food Bank for Larimer County
Loveland, CO · EIN 74-2336171. Reported 190 grants totalling $15.0M to 50 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 The Food Bank for Larimer County, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K31Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 95% 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 $35,977. Half of what it reported fell between $15,108 and $83,932; the smallest was $5,065 and the largest $700,313. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
190 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $14.8M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Health | Denver, CO | $2,020,334 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $1,707,292 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Red Feather Lakes Community Library | Livermore, CO | $1,582,481 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| House of Neighborly Service | Loveland, CO | $1,131,674 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Denver Rescue Mission | Denver, CO | $710,177 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Crossroads Ministry of Estes Park Inc | Estes Park, CO | $700,851 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zion Lutheran Church | Wellington, CO | $694,519 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mcbackpack Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $635,621 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Poudre Christian Fellowship | Bellvue, CO | $530,169 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Loveland Rotary Club Foundation | Loveland, CO | $487,010 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Washington, DC | $443,408 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Loveland | Loveland, CO | $324,503 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eden Valley Institute Inc | Loveland, CO | $311,887 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Community Kitchen | Loveland, CO | $280,821 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $277,337 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Junior League of Fort Collins | Fort Collins, CO | $268,835 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lighthouse | Fort Collins, CO | $256,543 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Turn the Hearts | Riverside, CA | $252,848 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Front Range Community College Foundation for Educ Excellence | Westminster, CO | $190,410 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Foothills Assembly of God | Apache Junction, AZ | $157,233 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Aspire 3D | Loveland, CO | $148,125 | 12 | 4 | 2023 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel | Los Angeles, CA | $140,632 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado Health Network Inc | Denver, CO | $138,930 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| General Conference of Seventh Day Adventist | Silver Spring, MD | $126,645 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Global Leaders Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $126,626 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Success | Estes Park, CO | $106,925 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Animal Friends Alliance | Fort Collins, CO | $106,834 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summitstone Health Partners | Fort Collins, CO | $101,874 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Homeward Alliance Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $99,317 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Front Line Farming Inc | Denver, CO | $97,965 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bamford Elementary PTO | Loveland, CO | $91,184 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Villages Ltd | Fort Collins, CO | $84,564 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Crossroads Safehouse & Services Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $83,998 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Elderhaus Adult Day Program Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $78,388 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Legacy Church Fc | Fort Collins, CO | $77,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Saint Johns Lutheran Church | Fort Collins, CO | $64,875 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Presbyterian Church USA | Londonderry, NH | $63,734 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church Inc | Orlando, FL | $59,341 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Matthews House | Fort Collins, CO | $57,866 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Larimer County | Fort Collins, CO | $34,162 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Charitable Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $31,938 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $31,164 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Respite Care Inc | Timnath, CO | $22,372 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| St Vincent De Paul Society Particular Council of Denver | Denver, CO | $14,976 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Loveland Public Library Foundation Inc | Loveland, CO | $12,818 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Buffalo Youth Nation Project | Cheyenne, WY | $12,761 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $9,193 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alternatives to Violence Inc | Loveland, CO | $8,465 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Faith Evangelical Church - Lago Vista | Loveland, CO | $6,684 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Calvary Baptist Temple | Fort Collins, CO | $5,065 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
44 of 50 (88%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Family Medicine Center
Provide food and household goods to clients in need
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 50 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 | 41 | $3,017,192 | $21,435 |
| 2021 | 46 | $2,996,862 | $30,627 |
| 2022 | 53 | $3,912,955 | $27,917 |
| 2023 | 50 | $5,081,765 | $56,618 |
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
90% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $35,977 -- 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 The Food Bank for Larimer County'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 49 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 5706 Wright Dr, Loveland, CO, 80538.
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