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Benefits in Action

Public-benefit enrollment, insurance navigation and benefit literacy

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Updated: 2026-10-06

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Summary

What do they do? Benefits in Action assists with SNAP, health insurance, disability and other public-benefit applications. Its food-delivery program ended April30,2026; current navigation continues statewide. A conditional health-plus-net-transfer reference is about $1.4M per DALY.

Why we’re interested in this organization:

  • Current recipient sources identify free application assistance and dated food-program closure.

  • Original filings and legal donor identity were independently checked.

  • The calculation includes recipient resources, full participation burdens and distinct public-payer losses.

Our main reservations:

  • Individuals and families are mixed units; applications are not unique approvals or causal outcomes.

  • Historical expenses include discontinued food delivery and are not a current navigation budget.

  • Incremental enrollment, household benefit amounts, health utility and local share remain hypotheses.

What do you get for your dollar? $1.4M per DALY in Denver. DALY is our one-year comparison unit. QALY-based health gains and income-welfare equivalents retain their original assumptions; they are not measured clinical DALYs. Historical full annual recipient cost against conditional current navigation benefits; not a matched current whole-portfolio or marginal-gift EV..

2025 mixed16000 individuals/families and28000 applications;87% Medicaid descriptive statement; current fooddelivery ceased2026. No counts converted to deaths prevented, completed treatments or net income automatically.

1. What do they do?

Benefits in Action, EIN87-3774775, offers free application assistance, benefit literacy and referral support. SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, Connect for Health Colorado, Social Security and LEAP are mechanisms, not measured new income. Official donation page names the legal payee/check route and links ColoradoGives; no transaction made. Food delivery ended April30,2026, despite stale donor-profile food wording.

2. Monitoring and information sharing

The homepage2025 envelope is16000 individuals and families and28000 applications. These are mixed units and overlapping applications, not unique households or approvals. Its87% Medicaid enrollment/fewer-emergency-visits statement is descriptive, not a controlled causal coefficient. Request distinct current households, approvals versus alternative application, benefit duration, service county, after-tax/other-benefit-withdrawal resources and payer costs. Cumulative75000 since2015 is not annual output.

3. Qualitative assessment

Enrollment may improve access to care and constrained household consumption, but self-application, county agencies, insurers and other navigators are alternatives. Model16000 mixed units times.5 household conversion; .2 incremental access, .2 health-compatible share, .3 clinical response and .01 utility for one year are explicit judgments. No ER reduction or avoided-death coefficient is imported. Current statewide navigation differs from the former four-county food service.

4. What do you get for your dollar?

Original full FY2024 expenses $4,368,504 include $8,972 netted direct event costs. FY2023 full $2,525,910; two comparable full-year mean $3,447,207. FY2022 covered only July–December: $770,665 including $13,412 direct events, excluded from annual mean and not annualized. FY2024 $3,853,488 recognized program cost combines navigation and then-food work; it is only a historical mixed-program sensitivity, not allocated current navigation or a marginal donation price. Cost/output/program vintages do not match, so this is a conditional partial reference.

Model, assumptions and sensitivity

Historical whole FY2024 annual entity expense with current navigation-only benefit hypothesis; no claim current budget, all-portfolio EV or next-gift offer.

Statewide navigation and Colorado Springs co-locations; g.6 judged beneficiary share in ten-county Denver CBSA19740. Former Jefferson/Denver/Adams/Arapahoe food footprint is not current navigation share.

Health = N × unique × b × eligible × completion × response × q × finite discounted T × g minus full exposed harms. Same-household net resources including access costs are joint logged; distinct government payer loses full transferred resources localized once. Price=10C/(health + signed income equivalents) when positive.

C
4368504 USD annual (observed). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [finance]
N
16000 annual participant household-equivalent hypothesis (judgment). 2025 recipient descriptive mixed individuals/families envelope16000, not unique successful households. [services] [cg-cost]
unique
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Judged.5 conversion/deduplication of mixed units into household equivalents. [services] [cg-cost]
eligible
0.2 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
completion
1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
b
0.2 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
response
0.3 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
q
0.01 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
T
1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
g
0.6 model parameter (judgment). Judged.6 Denver ten-county local beneficiary share for statewide navigation. [services] [cg-cost]
delay
0.1 model parameter (judgment). .1year modeled navigation engagement resource period, not capitalizing known early costs. [services] [cg-cost]
r
0.03 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
harm
0.0001 model parameter (judgment). Judged full.0001 stress/disutility per exposed household including failed applications. [services] [cg-cost]
success
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
workGain
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
medicalGain
2400 model parameter (judgment). Judged actual net disposable public benefit resources2400/year, NOT insurance/medical retail value; fullmatching payer transfer loss retained. [services] [cg-cost]
overlap
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
cost
25 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
baseline
15000 model parameter (judgment). Judged15000 household consumption baseline for lower-income recipients, not observed average income. [services] [cg-cost]
payerLoss
2400 model parameter (judgment). Full2400 public transfer resources per changed household, distinct taxpayer loss not positive-overlap attenuated. [services] [cg-cost]
externalCost
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
payerPeople
10000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
payerBaseline
50000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]

central: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

clinical null: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.48; all-population health QALYs: -0.80. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

financial only: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

zero benefit full burdens: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.48; all-population health QALYs: -0.80. Income-equivalent healthy years: -3.99. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no exposure: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no gift no exposure: Cost: $0; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

adverse: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -25.08; all-population health QALYs: -41.80. Income-equivalent healthy years: -4.56. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

unknown: Cost: unknown; Denver health QALYs: unknown; all-population health QALYs: unknown. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no recipient resources full payer loss: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -15.49. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

clinical response null: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.48; all-population health QALYs: -0.80. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

short health: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.34; all-population health QALYs: -0.56. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

one year health: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

low additionality: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.19; all-population health QALYs: -0.32. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.51. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

all additionality: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 2.39; all-population health QALYs: 3.99. Income-equivalent healthy years: 30.47. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

half geography: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.08; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.46. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no local share: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no positive overlap: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -15.49. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

full positive overlap: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 20.08. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

negative overlap zero: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -23.62. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

negative overlap one: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 13.09. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

mixed resources: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -17.90. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no access cost: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 6.92. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

high access cost: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -24.96. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

higher payer incidence: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -4.73. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

external care cost: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -1.84. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

double cost: Cost: $8.7M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

program recognized cost: Cost: $3.9M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

half cohort: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.05; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 1.48. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

undated growth envelope: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.19; all-population health QALYs: 0.32. Income-equivalent healthy years: 5.88. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

household deduplication: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.13; all-population health QALYs: 0.22. Income-equivalent healthy years: 4.13. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no net work gain: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

higher net benefit resources: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 6.83. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no eligible subgroup: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.48; all-population health QALYs: -0.80. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

no completed dose: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.48; all-population health QALYs: -0.80. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

low health access response: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: -0.38; all-population health QALYs: -0.64. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

public transfer null: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -3.99. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

withdrawal and fees: Cost: $4.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -12.12. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

two full year mean cost: Cost: $3.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.10; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: 2.95. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

Counterfactual: Public self-application, county eligibility offices, insurer assistance and other navigators without this recipient; approved benefit may have arrived anyway.

Attribution: Incremental benefit access b.2 is distinct from health eligibility/clinical response and resource recipient fraction. Enrollment and submitted applications are not additionality.

Finite one-year conditional reference, no local controlled health or disposable-income effect. Current unique cohort/budget and approval additionality unknown; food closure breaks portfolio comparability.

Sensitivity

  • clinical null: $1.8M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • financial only: $1.5M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • zero benefit full burdens: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no exposure: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no gift no exposure: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • adverse: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • unknown: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no recipient resources full payer loss: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • clinical response null: $1.8M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • short health: $1.7M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • one year health: $1.4M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • low additionality: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • all additionality: $133K per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • half geography: $1.7M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no local share: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no positive overlap: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • full positive overlap: $217K per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • negative overlap zero: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • negative overlap one: $331K per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • mixed resources: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no access cost: $623K per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • high access cost: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • higher payer incidence: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • external care cost: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • double cost: $2.9M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • program recognized cost: $1.3M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • half cohort: $2.9M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • undated growth envelope: $719K per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • household deduplication: $1.0M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no net work gain: $1.4M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • higher net benefit resources: $631K per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no eligible subgroup: $1.8M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • no completed dose: $1.8M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • low health access response: $1.7M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • public transfer null: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • withdrawal and fees: no finite positive estimate. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.
  • two full year mean cost: $1.1M per DALY. Conditional finite benefits-navigation reference using FY2024 historical full cost and2025 mixed-unit navigation envelope; fooddeliveryceased2026, currentbudget/uniqueapprovals/utility/netresources not measured.

Unresolved inputs

  • Current unique households and additional approvals
  • Current post-food-closure annual navigation costs
  • Net beneficiary resources after offsets and public payer incidence
  • Local causal health utility and eligible dose
  • New donor capacity and fully allocated navigation costs

Health and income breakdown

For the modeled $4.4M: 0.10 health QALYs + 2.95 income-equivalent healthy years in Denver: $1.4M per DALY. Income equivalents are welfare comparisons, not observed QALYs or DALYs.

Method and caveats.

5. Funding and previous grants

Judged$2400 annual resources for half of incremental households are actual disposable food/cash/utility benefits net of taxes, offsets and other benefit withdrawal, not insurance retail spending or gross wages. Positive gain is overlap-adjusted. Full$25 time/access costs and stress apply to all exposed households even failed applications. Same household benefit and costs share one log. Distinct taxpayer households lose full$2400 per changed household, without positive-overlap discount; local incidence applied once. Taxpayer baseline/group size and net benefit amounts are judgments. Insurance clinical access and consumption savings are not duplicated; additional public treatment/provider costs are adverse sensitivities. Next-gift capacity after food closure unknown.

Annual expenses

Organization-level spending, including programs, administration and fundraising. The research list averages three comparable, consecutive full fiscal years when available.

  • FY 2024: $4.4M; org:benefits-in-action, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2023: $2.5M; org:benefits-in-action, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2022: $771K; org:benefits-in-action, 6-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source

6. Sources

  1. Original full FY2024 IRS990. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  2. Original full FY2023 IRS990. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  3. Original SIXMONTH July–December2022 IRS990. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  4. Current free application assistance and benefit programs. Benefits in Action. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  5. Current homepage2025 mixed-unit impact. Benefits in Action. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  6. Official food-delivery closure April30,2026. Benefits in Action. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  7. Official legal payee, EIN and donor route. Benefits in Action. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  8. Recipient ColoradoGives donation intake. Benefits in Action. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  9. Health and net-income comparison framework. Coefficient Giving. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.