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ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC

ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,046,090 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$2.0M
17/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Ashe Food Pantry Inc does

Mission

Ashe food pantry, inc.is leading the fight to eliminate hunger in our community by acquiring and distributing food to those who seek aid. We operate seven pantries aimed at reaching all the various sectors of the food-insecure population.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operated ashe food pantry to provide a five-day supply of emergency food assistance to people in need. Distributed 433,438 pounds of purchased and donated food to 6,441 families or 20,013 individuals.

    $840,755 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. Operation backpack provided approximately 12,000 weekend food backpacks to students at ashe middle school, ashe early learning center, mountain view elementary and westwood elementary. Operation backpack also distributed 226,277 pounds of purchased and donated food home-delivered to 60 families.

    $436,714 spent
    14% of program spending
  3. Mountaineer mobile pantry made monthly deliveries to creston, lansing, and warrensville reaching 4,881 families or 17,351 individuals. Distributed 375,088 pounds of purchased and donated food.

    $747,320 spent
    24% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,096,495 spent
    35% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,121,284.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($274k) Expenses 100 ($240k) Net assets 100 ($354k)2018 Revenue 134 ($365k) Expenses 116 ($279k) Net assets 124 ($440k)2019 Revenue 159 ($435k) Expenses 128 ($309k) Net assets 160 ($566k)2020 Revenue 255 ($697k) Expenses 151 ($362k) Net assets 254 ($901k)2021 Revenue 191 ($521k) Expenses 192 ($462k) Net assets 271 ($961k)2022 Revenue 234 ($642k) Expenses 209 ($501k) Net assets 311 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 725 ($2.0M) Expenses 842 ($2.0M) Net assets 305 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 1365 ($3.7M) Expenses 1339 ($3.2M) Net assets 455 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 1255 ($3.4M) Expenses 1303 ($3.1M) Net assets 552 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (1255)Expenses (1303)Net assets (552)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+49%).

$359k
$445k
$567k
$902k
$964k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.6M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 8% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’17
$86k
’18
$126k
’19
$335k
’20
$60k
’21
$141k
’22
−$37k
’23
$520k
’24
$305k
’25
2.6
months of
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

Michael Sexton

CEO

Board chair

Michelle Hammond

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101111998988
Joined·+3+0+4+1+2+4+2+1
No longer listed·20613331
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $0 → $82k.

15 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

86% 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 ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC.

24%
largest funder
42%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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

33% of ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

80% of ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MA
PA
CT
MO
VA
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $373k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC?
ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,046,090 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,046,090 in grants to ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC?
THE GOLDEN LEAF INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC 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 29 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