Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BREAD OF LIFE INC
BREAD OF LIFE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,662,021 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($391,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Bread of Life Inc does
Mission
The organization provides free food for food-insecure residents. It also collaborates with local agencies to help low-income people obtain housing, shelter, furniture, and counseling.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Food pantry and meals programin 2023, bread of life expanded its food programs to keep up with an 18% food insecurity rate in massachusetts as of september 2023, a level that approaches what we saw during the pandemic. We continue to meet the need and stop food insecurity for thousands of struggling neighbors in malden, everett, melrose, medford, wakefield, winchester, stoneham, saugus, reading, north reading, winthrop, revere and chelsea. O provided food for 63,000 households made up of 144,000 individuals.o distributed 79,000 bags of groceries to adults, children and seniors through our malden and everett pantries, motel outreach and everett backpack nutrition program.o delivered 12,000 grocery orders to senior citizens, disabled residents and covid-quarantined households through our grocery delivery program.o delivered meals and groceries to 4,300 homeless households of individuals and families sheltered in local motels.o distributed 3,030 backpacks to students in the everett public schools.o provided 33,584 meals through our evening meal program, including meal delivery to homebound senior citizens and families and individuals in shelter. O provided interpreting and…
$727,808 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $727,808.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.4M to $8.0M (+25%).
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 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 15% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of BREAD OF LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $157k → $651k.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 OF LIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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 OF LIFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 49% · 2019 41% · 2020 18% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — 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 BREAD OF LIFE 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
97% of BREAD OF LIFE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $344k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BREAD OF LIFE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BREAD OF LIFE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $760k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$760k
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 BREAD OF LIFE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 54 Eastern Ave Malden LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAD OF LIFE 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 BREAD OF LIFE INC?
- BREAD OF LIFE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,662,021 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($391,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAD OF LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,662,021 in grants to BREAD OF LIFE INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAD OF LIFE INC?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $391,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAD OF LIFE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 61 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