Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHANNEL ONE INC
CHANNEL ONE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,809,336 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($6,261,706). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Channel One Inc does
Mission
At channel one regional food bank, our mission is to strengthen food access and build healthy communities with a vision that every community in our region is food secure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Channel one food bank as a partner food bank of the feeding america network, the food bank solicits, receives, inventories and distributes food and other products to 126 programs operated by 79 nonprofit 501(c)(3) agency partners and 130 programs operated by 92 nonprofit 501(c)(3) agencies for the years ended june 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, who distribute directly to people facing hunger in our 14-county service region.
$22,613,396 spentof which $20,790,708 as grants$2,123,492 earned by the program85% of program spendingChannel one food shelf a choice food shelf offering shopping and delivery to eligible individuals and households. The food shelf follows minnesota's tefap (the emergency food assistance program) eligibility guidelines. Approximately 12,775 and 11,275 unique households were served for the years ended june 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. In total, there were 118,373 and 100,001 household visits to the food shelf for the years ended june 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
$2,385,999 spentof which $1,769,485 as grants9% of program spendingCommodity supplemental food program (csfp) provides nutritionally balanced, supplemental usda food packages to income eligible seniors monthly. Channel one distributes this program throughout the 13 county service area in minnesota. In total, channel one distributed 11,304 and 8,885 packages for the years ended june 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
$975,860 spentof which $827,164 as grants4% of program spendingKitchen coalition - channel one pairs its ability to source donated and rescued food with restaurants' expertise in food preparation to fill a crucial need. Kitchen coalition harnesses the power of the food bank to bring nutritious, prepared meals to those facing the greatest need, with a priority placed on communities with the largest disparities in access to food. During the years ended june 30, 2025 and 2024, in partnership with its restaurant and distribution partners channel one, inc. Distributed 45,039 and 70,627 meals, respectively.
$613,877 spentof which $295,874 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,589,132.
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 2019 to 2020, from $6.0M to $9.4M (+57%).
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 2% · 2018 7% · 2019 12% · 2020 23% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CHANNEL ONE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% 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
Virginia Witherspoon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $377k → $2.1M.
21 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $500k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Feeding Wisconsin Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHANNEL ONE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHANNEL ONE 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
CHANNEL ONE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 CHANNEL ONE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 40% · 2019 26% · 2020 37% · 2021 80% · 2022 27% · 2023 52% — 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
40% of CHANNEL ONE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
CHANNEL ONE INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
CHANNEL ONE INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHANNEL ONE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- FEDERAL$200k
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 CHANNEL ONE 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHANNEL ONE 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 CHANNEL ONE INC?
- CHANNEL ONE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,809,336 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($6,261,706). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANNEL ONE INC have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $12,809,336 in grants to CHANNEL ONE INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANNEL ONE INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $6,261,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANNEL ONE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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