Maine · Nonprofit
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL (Maine) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,178,807 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($550,750). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Full Plates Full Potential does
Mission
We are ending childhood hunger by helping schools and nonprofits maximize participation in usda child nutrition programs. We support initiatives that reach food-insecure children with free and reduced price meals through the national school lunch program, school breakfast program, child and adult care food programs, and the summer food service program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Out of school: sun meals: Full Plates Full Potential awarded $280,461 in funding through the summer meals grant program to 38 school districts and community organizations across maine. Grant funding supported adoption of established and emerging best practices around increasing participation, including opening new meal sites, launching or expanding alternative meal service models (such as meal pick-up, bulk and/or multiple meals, transporting and delivering meals to children at home), and partnering with other community organizations or institutions.
$313,377 spent12% of program spendingSchool food system innovation usda cooperative agreement: Full Plates Full Potential continued work on a usda cooperative agreement intended to increase the use of local ingredients in school meals. During this second year, full plates awarded around $8.5 million in subrecipient funding and began ongoing grant management.
$84,737 spent3% of program spendingSchool meals: scratch cooking: Full Plates Full Potential worked to expand opportunities for schools to engage in scratch cooking of meals through investments in new equipment, expanded culinary skills training opportunities, and deepening connections with local producers and processors.
$1,993,060 spentof which $1,960,180 as grants75% of program spendingThe outreach program for snap: Full Plates Full Potential began work, in partial partnership with the state of maine, to expand and strengthen outreach efforts related to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the largest federal anti-hunger program in the country. Full plates developed training and outreach materials and delivered resources into the field. Expenses: $8,211all other programs providing grants and staff time and support towards the goal of ending childhood food insecurity in maine. Expenses: $242,825total expenses for other programs: $251,036
$251,036 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,642,210.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $11M (+242%).
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: 2021 1% · 2024 7% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL’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 8 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
Justin Strasburger
Executive director
Board chair
Laura Pineo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $8k → $750k.
11 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 66% · 2020 15% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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
44% of FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10.0M
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 FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL
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 Maine
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
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Food for All Services · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: 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 FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL?
- FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL (Maine) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,178,807 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($550,750). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $3,178,807 in grants to FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $550,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 74 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