Missouri · Nonprofit
BREAD SHED INC
BREAD SHED INC (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,418 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $105k
What Bread Shed Inc does
Mission
To feed the hungry, spiritually and physically, and act as an extension of the love of jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mobile food pantry & saturday breakfast: bread shed provides a monthly mobile food pantry in butler, ripley, and carter counties in southeast missouri. This mobile food pantry provides approximately 30,000 individuals with food for a week. The food totals to approximately 150,000 lbs. In addition to the food pantry, bread shed provides a free breakfast on food pantry distribution days. Approximately 425 people are fed during the monthly breakfasts. In 2016, bread shed began weekly free lunch on sunday. Free sunday lunch is provided 50 weeks per year and approximately 250 people are fed during each sunday lunch. In 2020, bread shed began a mobile shower that operates at their building, and they began to provide toiletries and clean undergarments to attendees.
$131,315 spent100% of program spendingAbc "a better childhood": in february 2011 bread shed began the backpack friday program. In 2017, the program was changed to abc "a better childhood." the program partners with schools to identify children and their families who will benefit from receiving extra food each month. Once the families are identified, and abc "ticket" is sent home with each child as an invitation and pass to come to the bread shed on a designated day to receive a box of free groceries.
Senior box program: in 2021 bread shed began distribution program of senior boxes (box of commodity cheese and staples) once a month to seniors. In addition the organization also began an distribution program on the 2nd thursday each month of newborn/infant supplies (diapers, formula, nursing supplies).
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,315.
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 $123k to $105k (−15%).
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.
100% of BREAD SHED INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $178.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SHED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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 SHED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 SHED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of BREAD SHED INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SHED INC has grown faster than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BREAD SHED 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREAD SHED INC?
- BREAD SHED INC (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,418 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAD SHED INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $23,418 in grants to BREAD SHED INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAD SHED INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAD SHED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 5 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