Minnesota · Nonprofit
EVERY MEAL
EVERY MEAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,063,459 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,812,542). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 181
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Every Meal does
Mission
Every Meal's mission is to fight child hunger through community and school partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In the fall of 2010, the principal at las estrellas (formerly sheridan elementary) told mill city church and Every Meal founder, rob williams, her students didn't have enough food on the weekends and asked if they could help. In response, they provided meal bags each friday and the organization was born. Since then, the organization has worked tirelessly to remove the barriers to food access that so many children face. Every Meal has provided over 14.5 million meals to thousands of children who are living in food insecurity. Every Meal (formerly the sheridan story) works to fight child hunger in minnesota by filling the gaps that children face during weekends, summers, and extended breaks when they are not in school to access meals.(continued on schedule o)through a network of nearly 500 partner organizations, Every Meal provides thousands of children with the food they need to learn and grow.a differentiator of Every Meal is the quality of food provided. Over 98% of our food is purchased from over 25 local, national, and global vendors. Food items and brands are determined through guidance from registered dieticians who analyze nutritional contents and taste tests to ensure that…
$4,416,535 spentof which $2,312,139 as grants$235,428 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,416,535.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $6.7M to $11M (+70%).
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: 2024 42% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EVERY MEAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Jenna Soule
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $80k → $4.2M.
26 of 181 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 EVERY MEAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 181 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
EVERY MEAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
56% 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 EVERY MEAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 24% · 2019 46% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 23% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of EVERY MEAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
87% of EVERY MEAL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
EVERY MEAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EVERY MEAL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 EVERY MEAL: 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 EVERY MEAL?
- EVERY MEAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,063,459 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,812,542). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVERY MEAL have?
- IRS filings report 181 organizations giving $20,063,459 in grants to EVERY MEAL, 103 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERY MEAL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,812,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERY MEAL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 181 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