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CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD

CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD (Minnesota) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,251 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($545,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$21M
Revenue FY2025
61
Funders on record
$3.2M
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
34/61 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($791k)2018 Revenue 91 ($1.3M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 125 ($989k)2019 Revenue 87 ($1.2M) Expenses 114 ($1.1M) Net assets 135 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 438 ($6.2M) Expenses 515 ($5.2M) Net assets 258 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 595 ($8.4M) Expenses 818 ($8.3M) Net assets 277 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 520 ($7.4M) Expenses 773 ($7.8M) Net assets 220 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 932 ($13M) Expenses 1313 ($13M) Net assets 210 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 1248 ($18M) Expenses 1692 ($17M) Net assets 280 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 1482 ($21M) Expenses 2061 ($21M) Net assets 298 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (1482)Expenses (2061)Net assets (298)

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: 2020 0% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$404k
17
$273k
18
$78k
19
$992k
20
$149k
21
$454k
22
$83k
23
$555k
24
$147k
25
0.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 24 funders, grant income rose $27k → $547k.

15 of 61 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 CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD’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

CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

51% 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 CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 37% · 2020 19% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 37%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

52% of CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

94% of CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL
WI
NY
CT
TN
TX
FL

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

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19
20
21
22
23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $748k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 61 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD?
CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD (Minnesota) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,251 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($545,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD have?
IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $3,193,251 in grants to CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD?
Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $545,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD 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 61funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing