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FARM CAFE INC

FARM CAFE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $641,922 to it, the largest being GAIL HANDEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($110,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$558k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$642k
Net assets
$424k
11/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Farm Cafe Inc does

Mission

Operation of a local cafe which allows any person to eat a healthy and nutritious meal, regardless of means or ability to pay for the meal.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our mission is to build a healthy and inclusive community by providing high quality & delicious meals produced from local sources, served in a restaurant where everybody eats, regardless of means. F.a.r.m. Full circle is a food recovery and redistribution program of f.a.r.m. Cafe. We collect imperfect fruits and vegetables, over-ordered food items, and other products at risk of going to waste from local grocers, farmers, and small businesses. Each week, volunteers prepare ready-to-eat meals, meal kits, and other value added products using recovered foods. These products are distributed in two ways. A weekly selection of meals and side dishes are available on a donate-what-you-can basis at f.a.r.m. Cafe. Secondly, we distribute fresh produce, prepared meals, and meal kits to nonprofit and faith-based organizations directly serving food insecure individuals in our community.

    $602,548 spent$247,468 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $602,548.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($265k) Expenses 100 ($278k) Net assets 100 ($86k)2019 Revenue 130 ($346k) Expenses 111 ($308k) Net assets 144 ($124k)2020 Revenue 160 ($425k) Expenses 117 ($325k) Net assets 260 ($224k)2021 Revenue 149 ($396k) Expenses 125 ($349k) Net assets 314 ($271k)2022 Revenue 153 ($405k) Expenses 145 ($405k) Net assets 314 ($271k)2023 Revenue 185 ($492k) Expenses 174 ($484k) Net assets 330 ($284k)2024 Revenue 280 ($741k) Expenses 192 ($535k) Net assets 575 ($496k)2025 Revenue 210 ($558k) Expenses 228 ($635k) Net assets 492 ($424k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (228)Net assets (492)

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 $291k to $504k (+73%).

$89k
$127k
$231k
$278k
$279k
$291k
$504k
$427k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’18
$38k
’19
$100k
’20
$47k
’21
−$219
’22
$7k
’23
$206k
’24
−$77k
’25
5.0
months of
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

Elena Dalton

Executive director

Board chair

Amanda Hege

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1210111112121314
Joined·+3+2+3+1+6+1+2
No longer listed·5130601
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $32k → $53k.

8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 FARM CAFE INC’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

FARM CAFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

54% 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 FARM CAFE INC.

17%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 46% · 2019 43% · 2020 59% · 2021 42% · 2022 47% · 2023 49% — 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

27% of FARM CAFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

FARM CAFE INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.

MA
CA
VA
NC
FL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FARM CAFE 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
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 FARM CAFE INC?
FARM CAFE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $641,922 to it, the largest being GAIL HANDEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($110,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FARM CAFE INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $641,922 in grants to FARM CAFE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FARM CAFE INC?
GAIL HANDEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FARM CAFE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 22 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