Connecticut · Nonprofit
COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC
COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,121 to it, the largest being LESTER E FOSTER & PHYLLIS M FOSTER FOUNDATION ($621,985). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Covenant Soup Kitchen Inc does
Mission
Realizing that people can be impoverished physically, mentally, emotionally, spirtually, socially and financially. The covenant soup kitchen provides food and access to basic services in an environment of care, love, support and safety to those individuals and families from the greater windham community who come through our doors. We rely on the generosity of the community and its faith to help carry out this mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide food and access to basic services in an environment of care, love, support and safety to those individuals and families from the greater windham community. Covenant soup kitchen was open every day and served 833,664 meals through the combined services of the soup kitchen, community food pantry cooperative, csfp program and the supplemental meals program.
$1,752,251 spentof which $1,219,868 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,752,251.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $4.3M (+22%).
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 3% · 2018 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
James R Mark
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $80k → $237k.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 28% · 2020 35% · 2021 32% · 2022 77% · 2023 34% — 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
57% of COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
76% of COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN 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 Connecticut
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
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN 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 COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC?
- COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,121 to it, the largest being LESTER E FOSTER & PHYLLIS M FOSTER FOUNDATION ($621,985). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,570,121 in grants to COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC?
- LESTER E FOSTER & PHYLLIS M FOSTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $621,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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