Colorado · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Food, Agriculture & Nutrition in Colorado

Imperigo has identified 319 funders that made 2,701 grants totaling $201.8M to 146 food, agriculture & nutrition organizations in Colorado, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Food, Agriculture & Nutrition Funding in Colorado

Total granted $201.8M
Funders 319
Grants 2,701
Organizations funded 146

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Colorado Gives Foundation
217 grants to 59 organizations · largest $2.1M · through 2024 · 5.2% of their giving
$21.1M
2. Food Bank of the Rockies Endowment Fund
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $3.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.0M
3. The Denver Foundation
68 grants to 35 organizations · largest $5.5M · through 2024 · 2.8% of their giving
$12.7M
4. Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Foundation
7 grants to 4 organizations · largest $508K · through 2024 · 15.4% of their giving
$797K
5. Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $200K · through 2025 · 20.0% of their giving
$530K
6. Denver Post Community Foundation
29 grants to 5 organizations · largest $50K · through 2025 · 8.8% of their giving
$990K
7. Colorado Springs Health Foundation
15 grants to 4 organizations · largest $350K · through 2024 · 4.6% of their giving
$1.5M
8. The Weld Trust
11 grants to 4 organizations · largest $568K · through 2024 · 3.2% of their giving
$1.7M
9. Gazette Charities
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $147K · through 2024 · 8.4% of their giving
$647K
10. United Way of Weld County Inc
21 grants to 2 organizations · largest $81K · through 2023 · 6.5% of their giving
$649K
11. Community Foundation Boulder County
44 grants to 15 organizations · largest $285K · through 2024 · 2.2% of their giving
$1.8M
12. Community Foundation of Northern Colorado
26 grants to 9 organizations · largest $195K · through 2024 · 2.7% of their giving
$1.4M
13. Mile High United Way Inc
65 grants to 34 organizations · largest $175K · through 2024 · 1.6% of their giving
$2.2M
14. Golden Civic Foundation Inc
10 grants to 3 organizations · largest $28K · through 2024 · 29.4% of their giving
$166K
15. Sugarbeet Research and Education Board of Mn and ND
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $120K · through 2024 · 8.7% of their giving
$352K
16. Means Database Inc
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $954K · through 2024 · 1.5% of their giving
$1.7M
17. Woodard & Curran Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2025 · 12.5% of their giving
$175K
18. Share the Dough
15 grants to 3 organizations · largest $23K · through 2024 · 7.4% of their giving
$278K
19. Ent Credit Union
12 grants to 6 organizations · largest $106K · through 2024 · 4.6% of their giving
$393K
20. Aspen Community Foundation
28 grants to 5 organizations · largest $359K · through 2024 · 1.5% of their giving
$1.0M
21. Colorado Garden Show Inc
9 grants to 7 organizations · largest $64K · through 2024 · 9.3% of their giving
$152K
22. Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund
10 grants to 3 organizations · largest $125K · through 2024 · 2.3% of their giving
$535K
23. The Albertsons Companies Foundation
32 grants to 14 organizations · largest $484K · through 2024
$1.8M
24. Denver Broncos Foundation
9 grants to 5 organizations · largest $150K · through 2024 · 3.2% of their giving
$354K
25. Pikes Peak Community Foundation
15 grants to 5 organizations · largest $192K · through 2024 · 1.4% of their giving
$772K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to food, agriculture & nutrition work in Colorado, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 15 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering food, agriculture & nutrition work, with an address in Colorado. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable food, agriculture & nutrition funding in Colorado, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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