Michigan · Nonprofit
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC (Michigan) receives grants from 351 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,939,294 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($28,815,105). 238 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97M
- Funders on record
- 351
- Grants received
- $83M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Forgotten Harvest Inc does
Mission
The mission of forgotten harvest is relieving hunger in metro detroit and preventing nutritious food waste.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Forgotten harvest rescues fresh, nutritious food from more than 700 unique food donor locations, including grocery stores, farms, processors, manufacturers, warehouses, distributors, dairies, restaurants, caterers, entertainment venues and sports arenas. In collaboration with our network of over 220 agency partners, the food we rescue and produce is delivered - free of charge - to metro detroit individuals who are food insecure. Our food helps bridge the income gap for tens of thousands of families, allowing them to meet their fundamental human need for good nutrition. This year, 46,792,018 pounds were rescued and 45,026,273 pounds were delivered.
$99,773,564 spentof which $1,480,195 as grants$98,575,229 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,773,564.
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 2020 to 2021, from $29M to $67M (+133%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Adrian Lewis
CEO
Board chair
Andrew Ottaway
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 85 funders to 165 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $6.4M.
25 of 351 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $5.2M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way for Southeastern Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 351 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 15% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 64% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — broadly stable.
“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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
71% of FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC's funding base is broadening — from 85 funders to 165 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FORGOTTEN HARVEST 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Forgotten Harvest Farms LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORGOTTEN HARVEST 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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC?
- FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC (Michigan) receives grants from 351 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,939,294 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($28,815,105). 238 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 351 organizations giving $82,939,294 in grants to FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC, 238 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $28,815,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC 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 351 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