Florida · Nonprofit
FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC
FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,284,730 to it, the largest being DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC ($647,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $23k
What Food for Thought Outreach Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to remove the negative impacts of hunger and empower a child to get the most out of their education and development by providing them weekly access to healthy and easy to prepare meals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food for Thought Outreach Inc provides access to healthy, easy to prepare meals to children in need in walton and okaloosa county. We provide weekly backpacks of food to children living in food insecure homes. These children depend on the free or reduced meals at their schools as their main source of food. When they are not in school, they often do not have any food available. Our mission is to remove the negative impacts of hunger and empower these children to get the most of their education and developement. Currently,food for thought serves 35 schools in walton and okaloosa counties, providing backpacks for more than 3,300 students each week.volunteer resources are integral part of food distribution, particularly in the packaging of fresh produce, bagging children's food bags, and sorting donated food.
$1,355,536 spent$1,104,301 earned by the program98% of program spendingFood for thought operates and manages full circle kitchen and full circle garden programs that teach kids invaluable life skills by not only teaching how to cook, but also how to grow their own food. These special classes offered to high school students enrolled in backpack program demonstrate and explain through hands-on instruction, fundamental cooking skills. Throughout the year, there were 42 full circle kitchen classes , benefiting 5-10 students per week, across five non-profit organizations.
$32,459 spent$32,459 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,387,995.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $913k to $2.1M (+127%).
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.
77% of FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Tiffanie M Nelson
Founder and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $92k → $255k.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 57% · 2019 60% · 2020 25% · 2021 73% · 2022 49% · 2023 23% — 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
52% of FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
53% of FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $865k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% 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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH 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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC?
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,284,730 to it, the largest being DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC ($647,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,284,730 in grants to FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC?
- DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $647,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 35 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