Alaska · Nonprofit
Beans Cafe Inc
Beans Cafe Inc (Alaska) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,881,366 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($1,516,860). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Beans Cafe Inc does
Mission
To improve the lives of indigent people of Anchorage, Alaska by providing nutritious meals, social service referrals, and a comfortable safe place in which to escape from the elements.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult Meals - Bean's Cafe provides breakfast, hot lunch, and hot and cold beverages and warm day shelter during the day as a safe alternative to the streets, 24 hours a day 365 days per year.
$2,468,261 spent$422,414 earned by the program68% of program spendingSocial Services - The social services program provides direct assistance and referral for clients seeking employment, transportation, housing, medical, legal, alcohol or drug rehabilitation and educational opportunities. In collaboration with a variety of community agencies, additional emergency and long term assistance are provided for those requiring mental health, veteran's assistance, disability, financial and case management services.
$723,270 spent$123,779 earned by the program20% of program spendingChildren's Meals - Children's meals program is designed to build strong and healthy foundations for children to increase productivity and enhance school age learning at school and throughout the day. Prepared meals are provided during the school year and delivered to alternative grade schools, high schools, after school programs, and early morning programs, as well as parenting classes. An emphasis is made to expose the kids to delicious food that will give them the nutrients they need for their growing bodies and minds. The idea being that what the kids eat today will affect what they eat as adults. The program continues in the summer months through various summer enrichment programs.
$451,337 spent$77,241 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,642,868.
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 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $15M (+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: 2017 13% · 2018 11% · 2019 22% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2022 25% · 2023 28% · 2024 14% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Beans Cafe Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Scott Lingle
CEO
Board chair
Jonathan Hornak
President/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $395k → $1.2M.
19 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Beans Cafe Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
Beans Cafe Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
74% 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 Beans Cafe Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 16% · 2019 25% · 2020 50% · 2021 45% · 2022 27% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of Beans Cafe Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
55% of Beans Cafe Inc's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Beans Cafe Inc's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Beans Cafe Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
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 Beans Cafe 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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Beans Cafe 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 Beans Cafe Inc?
- Beans Cafe Inc (Alaska) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,881,366 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($1,516,860). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Beans Cafe Inc have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $6,881,366 in grants to Beans Cafe Inc, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Beans Cafe Inc?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,516,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Beans Cafe Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 66 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