Connecticut · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC
DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,695,742 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($464,057). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc does
Mission
To serve people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity. The organization serves hot evening meals, packs free bag lunches, stocks food pantry bags, and maintains an emergency food bank for people in crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Evening meals program:the program served approximately 1,700 unduplicated individuals, all of whom self-identified as in need of food assistance. The program provided dinner five nights per week, year-round, and distributed bagged lunches and other basic needs items. Under this program, downtown evening soup kitchen, inc. (desk) staff also oversaw weekend meal distribution, carried out by yale community kitchen.desk relies on numerous volunteers to be able to run the evening meals program. The value of these in-kind services are not included in the program expenses. For the fiscal year ended june 30, 2024, 1,704 volunteers provided 11,352 hours to enable desk to provide these services to individuals in need.
$396,303 spent39% of program spendingFood pantry program:the program served over 1,432 unduplicated households, all of whom self-identified as in need of food assistance. The program provided weekly groceries, including frozen meat, fresh produce, canned and dry goods, fresh bread, pet food, and toiletries, year-round.desk relies on numerous volunteers to be able to run the food pantry program. The value of these in-kind services are not included in the program expenses. For the fiscal year ended june 30, 2024, 287 volunteers provided 3,790 hours to enable desk to provide these services to individuals in need.
$167,107 spent16% of program spendingDrop-in and resource center program:the program served approximately 1,825 unduplicated individuals, all of whom self-identified as in need of basic needs and emergency services. The program provided critical access to support services, including referrals to shelter, housing, substance use and mental health treatment, and employment services, as well as onsite assistance with housing application, job searches, and identification acquisition paperwork. The program was open 1:30-5:30 pm, six days per week.desk relies on numerous volunteers to be able to run the drc program. The value of these in-kind services are not included in the program expenses. For the fiscal year ended june 30, 2024, 177 volunteers provided 3,198 hours to enable desk to provide these services to individuals in need.
$460,495 spent45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,023,905.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $2.7M to $5.2M (+89%).
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: 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 19% · 2023 26% · 2024 47% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Steve Werlin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $21k → $731k.
15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
65% 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 DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 33% · 2019 16% · 2020 35% · 2021 23% · 2022 35% · 2023 16% — 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
55% of DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
71% of DOWNTOWN EVENING 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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record — $1.4M federal, $757k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.4M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$700k
- State Aid Grants$57k
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 DOWNTOWN EVENING 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 DOWNTOWN EVENING 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 DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC?
- DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,695,742 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($464,057). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $2,695,742 in grants to DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $464,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN EVENING 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 65 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