North Carolina · Nonprofit
A PLACE AT THE TABLE
A PLACE AT THE TABLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,894,928 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($310,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What A Place at the Table does
Mission
A Place at the Table provides community and good food for all regardless of means.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provide meals to all regardless of means. More than 50% of all meals are shared with individuals who utilize our pay what you can approach. Each guest chooses their meal and chooses how to pay. We emphasize choice and dignity in the range of options offered and the hospitality provided to each guest.
$1,638,089 spent$488,595 earned by the program96% of program spendingTable has expanded its program services to include the operation of a food truck. The mobile functionality of the truck allows table to fulfill its mission at locations remote to the cafe.
$68,939 spent$18,295 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,707,028.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 15% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of A PLACE AT THE TABLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Margaret Kane
Executive director
Board chair
Bart Norman
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $9k → $246k.
15 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A PLACE AT THE TABLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A PLACE AT THE TABLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A PLACE AT THE TABLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 72% · 2019 26% · 2020 34% · 2021 30% · 2022 14% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of A PLACE AT THE TABLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of A PLACE AT THE TABLE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $905k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $990k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A PLACE AT THE TABLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like A PLACE AT THE TABLE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A PLACE AT THE TABLE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE?
- A PLACE AT THE TABLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,894,928 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($310,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A PLACE AT THE TABLE have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $1,894,928 in grants to A PLACE AT THE TABLE, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A PLACE AT THE TABLE?
- TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A PLACE AT THE TABLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing