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CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC

CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,668 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$95k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$89k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Charlotte Food Shelf Inc does

Mission

Charlotte food shelf, inc. Is a non profit striving to provide nutritious food to those residing in charlotte, vermont or north ferrisburgh, vermont.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The food shelf provides the following types of assistance based on available funds: ~ adult preventative dental care assistance ~ emergency heating assistance (fuel and electric) ~ childrens assistance program (sneakers and winter clothing) ~ emergency assistance grants emergencies outside the scope of established programs may receive assistance based on circumstances and funds available. Using grant funds from the vermont food bank and employing significant volunteer labor, the charlotte food shelf renovated its space at the charlotte congregational church including new shelving and food storage bins and a new commercial refrigerator. Fy2025 has seen a 30% increase in the number being served, including a 50% increase in the number of children served. This has prompted the food shelf to purchase 31% more food and supplies.

    $90,301 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,301.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($45k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($92k)2024 Revenue 150 ($67k) Expenses 341 ($67k) Net assets 98 ($90k)2025 Revenue 214 ($95k) Expenses 495 ($97k) Net assets 97 ($89k)
202220242025
Revenue (214)Expenses (495)Net assets (97)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 $90k to $94k (+4%).

$92k
$90k
$94k
202220242025
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.

2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’22
$432
’24
−$1k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $8k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50% 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 CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC.

50%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 45% · 2023 63% — 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

50% of CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

50% of CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF 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 $30k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Vermont funders.

VT
MN
IL
NY

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF 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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

94%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC?
CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,668 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $59,668 in grants to CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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