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BREAD & ROSES INC

BREAD & ROSES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,119,225 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($260,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.3M
Funders on record
73
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$1.7M
49/73 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Bread & Roses Inc does

Mission

Bread & roses, inc. Provides meals and other related services for persons in need primarily from the city of lawrence, massachusetts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides meals and other related services to persons in need primarily from the city of lawrence, massachusetts.

    $2,661,478 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,661,478.

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 ($403k) Expenses 100 ($348k) Net assets 100 ($864k)2018 Revenue 57 ($230k) Expenses 107 ($372k) Net assets 86 ($744k)2019 Revenue 194 ($782k) Expenses 193 ($670k) Net assets 111 ($960k)2020 Revenue 340 ($1.4M) Expenses 359 ($1.2M) Net assets 125 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 310 ($1.3M) Expenses 318 ($1.1M) Net assets 155 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 431 ($1.7M) Expenses 424 ($1.5M) Net assets 166 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 392 ($1.6M) Expenses 502 ($1.7M) Net assets 157 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 1267 ($5.1M) Expenses 1470 ($5.1M) Net assets 155 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 823 ($3.3M) Expenses 853 ($3.0M) Net assets 199 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (823)Expenses (853)Net assets (199)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+24%).

$895k
$753k
$981k
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.8M
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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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of BREAD & ROSES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’17
−$142k
’18
$112k
’19
$123k
’20
$147k
’21
$262k
’22
−$164k
’23
−$7k
’24
$352k
’25
0.7
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.

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Listed1077995677
Joined·+4+1+3+0+0+2+1+1
No longer listed·71104101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $110k → $303k.

9 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BREAD & ROSES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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

BREAD & ROSES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

25% 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 BREAD & ROSES INC.

12%
largest funder
29%
top three
~21
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% — 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

48% of BREAD & ROSES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of BREAD & ROSES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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NH
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NC
TX

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $478k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

BREAD & ROSES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BREAD & ROSES 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 5%

Governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC?
BREAD & ROSES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,119,225 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($260,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREAD & ROSES INC have?
IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $2,119,225 in grants to BREAD & ROSES INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREAD & ROSES INC?
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREAD & ROSES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 73 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