Minnesota · Nonprofit
FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE
FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE (Minnesota) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,303,285 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($1,366,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 69 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 170 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Constellation Fundshared funderslocal
- The Second Step Foundationportfolio match
- Dfacares Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 8% · 2018 10% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 16% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $412k → $3.3M.
26 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $758k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hunger Solutions Minnesota). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 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 GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
50% 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 GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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
56% of FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
77% of FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 140 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Constellation Fundshared funderslocalMN · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- The Second Step Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dfacares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 100 organizations near you
- CoreGiving Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Minneapolis Council of Churchesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Country Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James M Stanton Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Target Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 113 organizations that share your funders · funds 261 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% 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 GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE?
- FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE (Minnesota) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,303,285 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($1,366,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $15,303,285 in grants to FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE?
- CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,366,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 140funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing