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FOOD FOR THOUGHT DENVER

EIN 81-2971428 ARVADA, CO

Revenue 2024
$1,986,757
Expenses 2024
$2,232,430

Program services were 96.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B80
Classification
1000
Street
5288 COORS ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Food for Thought-Denver strives to eliminate weekend hunger for students in the Denver area by providing food Powersacks. Doing so allows them to contribute more positively to their school environment and the communities in which they live, regardless of economic and social class. We believe that no student should go hungry.

  • Food for Thought Denver delivered 223,550 PowerSacks to Denvers Title 1 elementary schools during the financial period reported in this form 990.

    Expenses $2,157,606 · Revenue $1,774,241

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Bell

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Vince DeRose

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • John Gabriel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Matt Bargell

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Shireen Mazaheri

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Ben Waymire

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Sandi Matt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Pauline Bargell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Erin Myles

    Technology Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • RC Myles

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,986,757
    Expenses
    $2,232,430
    Contributions
    $1,734,313
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,948,400
    Expenses
    $1,711,352
    Contributions
    $1,731,694
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,442,523
    Expenses
    $1,296,499
    Contributions
    $2,394,914
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,208,439
    Expenses
    $1,017,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,528,056

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,426,551
    Expenses
    $749,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,328,342

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,826,849
    Expenses
    $918,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,650,939

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.