Montana · Nonprofit
ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC
ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,330 to it, the largest being TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Essential Eats Distributorsinc does
Mission
Essential eats distributors provides resources including but not limited to food and clothing to indigenous-led programs and other qualifying charitable organizations in the state of montana.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Essential eats distributors provides purchased and donated high-quality food including cows, chickens, piglets and outbuildings to montana's indigenous nations and other qualifying charitable organizations. During 2024 the rescue produce project was enacted as well as the bimbo program to deliver produce and bakery items discarded at participating businesses.
$377,166 spent$354,207 earned by the program86% of program spendingEssential eats distributors provides new bikes to indigenous children. Eed has provided over 2264 since may of 2018.
$21,705 spent$20,200 earned by the program5% of program spendingEssential eats distributors provides donated items to the indigenous population and other charitable organizations. Since 2018 over 3100 children have been supplied with new clothes, toys, books, coats, shoes, and school supplies.
$37,621 spent$82,860 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $436,492.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $34k to $51k (+50%).
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: 2020 121%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Sara Wecker
Chair, execu
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $5k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC: 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 ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC?
- ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,330 to it, the largest being TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $69,330 in grants to ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC?
- TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSENTIAL EATS DISTRIBUTORSINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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