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ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD

ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,779 to it, the largest being MILES CHARITABLE TRUST ($28,467). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$220k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$83k
Net assets
$378k
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Ecumenical Lords Cupboard does

Mission

Ecumenical organization that provides food for those in need

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Ecumenical Lords Cupboard has generated the recognition of and collection of the need for food assistance to the residents of wapello county, provided the handling thereof, and distribution functions all to benefit the residents fulfilling a significant need in the community.

    $56,233 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $56,233.

02The 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 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($87k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2018 Revenue 86 ($62k) Expenses 81 ($71k) Net assets 93 ($116k)2019 Revenue 77 ($56k) Expenses 58 ($51k) Net assets 97 ($121k)2020 Revenue 97 ($70k) Expenses 48 ($42k) Net assets 119 ($149k)2021 Revenue 85 ($61k) Expenses 60 ($53k) Net assets 127 ($159k)2022 Revenue 67 ($48k) Expenses 57 ($50k) Net assets 121 ($152k)2023 Revenue 102 ($74k) Expenses 71 ($62k) Net assets 134 ($168k)2024 Revenue 136 ($98k) Expenses 65 ($57k) Net assets 172 ($215k)2025 Revenue 304 ($220k) Expenses 70 ($61k) Net assets 303 ($378k)
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Revenue (304)Expenses (70)Net assets (303)

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 $215k to $378k (+76%).

$126k
$117k
$122k
$150k
$160k
$153k
$168k
$215k
$378k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15k
’17
−$9k
’18
$5k
’19
$28k
’20
$8k
’21
−$2k
’22
$11k
’23
$42k
’24
$159k
’25
75
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $13k.

From the IRS filings of ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD’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

ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

34%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 81% · 2019 52% · 2020 52% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 38% — 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.

Where its funders are

66% of ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

MN
IA

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD

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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD?
ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,779 to it, the largest being MILES CHARITABLE TRUST ($28,467). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $82,779 in grants to ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD?
MILES CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $28,467 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ECUMENICAL LORDS CUPBOARD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 5 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