Michigan · Nonprofit
FOOD GATHERERS
FOOD GATHERERS (Michigan) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,499,339 to it, the largest being Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($3,158,718). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 165
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Food Gatherers does
Mission
Our mission is to alleviate hunger and eliminate its root causes in washtenaw county, michigan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization receives direct donations of food, administers some government food programs (tefap/usda/summer food program) and purchases food from wholesalers. Food is sorted, packed and delivered to more than 100 other nonprofit agencies such as homeless shelters, food pantries, low income housing and after-school programs, who then distribute the food to people in need throughout washtenaw county. In the last fiscal year, approximately 9.8 million pounds of food were distributed, more than 60% of which was produce and protein items. Additionally, 27,450 in cash grants and 1,403,153 in the form of credits for food purchasing were distributed to partner agencies.
$20,247,044 spentof which $17,790,035 as grants$386,954 earned by the program94% of program spendingFood Gatherers operates a community kitchen, which is located in the robert j. Delonis center, home of the shelter association of washtenaw county. Volunteers transform rescued and bulk food into useful food resources and prepare and serve approximately 12 meals per week to those in need.
$947,202 spentof which $429,422 as grants4% of program spendingSummer food service program - the summer food service program (sfsp) was created to ensure that children in lower-income areas could continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations when they do not have access to the national school lunch or school breakfast programs. The sfsp is a program of the united states department of agriculture, which provides funding to cover the costs of the meals at eligible sites. Food Gatherers is the largest sponsor of the sfsp for children in washtenaw county. Free meals are made available to children under 18 years of age and under or persons up to age 26 who are enrolled in an educational program for the mentally or physically disabled that is recognized by a state or local public educational agency.
$448,474 spentof which $345,568 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,642,720.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $16M (+31%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 16% · 2020 27% · 2021 38% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% · 2024 5% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose $841k → $2.1M.
27 of 165 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 GATHERERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 165 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 GATHERERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
72% 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 GATHERERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 28% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% — 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
57% of FOOD GATHERERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
67% of FOOD GATHERERS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Organizations like FOOD GATHERERS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 GATHERERS: 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 GATHERERS?
- FOOD GATHERERS (Michigan) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,499,339 to it, the largest being Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($3,158,718). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD GATHERERS have?
- IRS filings report 165 organizations giving $17,499,339 in grants to FOOD GATHERERS, 111 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD GATHERERS?
- Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,158,718 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD GATHERERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 165 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