Minnesota · Nonprofit
APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC
APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,419,041 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,001,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Appetite for Change Inc does
Mission
Community-led food justice organization using food as a tool for building health, wealth, and social change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food-related programs: community cooks workshops, urban agriculture, food education, policy and advocacy, station 81 cafe, community meal services, etc. These programs help our community learn about nutrition, explore new ingredients and recipes, enjoy thousands of pounds of donated produce, create social and economic growth, and build capacity to make change on the basis of a commitment to food justice.
$940,649 spent$571,186 earned by the program65% of program spendingYouth training and opportunity program: incorporates several training programs that provide employment opportunities, develop leadership skills, and offer resources including hands-on training in urban farming, culinary arts, community organizing, and job readiness preparation to help youth become agents of change in the north minneapolis community.
$452,756 spent31% of program spendingCommunity cooks meal boxes: weekly meal boxes packed by youth interns and volunteers and delivered to residents of the north minneapolis community, focused around locally-sourced ingredients, original recipes, and educational information to highlight fresh produce, proteins, and pantry staples while guiding families through food skills development.
$45,901 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,439,306.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $2.2M (−50%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 2% · 2023 12% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Latasha Powell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $484k → $1.2M.
20 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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
APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 40% · 2020 23% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — 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
35% of APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
87% of APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: 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 APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC?
- APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,419,041 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,001,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $10,419,041 in grants to APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 93 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing