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GIVING FRIDGE INC

GIVING FRIDGE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being PORTER HOSPITAL INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$27k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$-33467
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Giving Fridge Inc does

Mission

Vermont's giving fridge is on a mission to make nutritious, locally prepared meals accessible to all.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The giving fridge is a non profit organization dedicated to ensuring everyone has access to nutritious, locally sourced and prepared meals. Our aim is to strengthen our local food system and help foster healthier, more productive communities. Via direct delivery and partner organization distribution, we have provided an average of 250 meals a week to local neighbors in need throughout addison county, vermont.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($40k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($753)2024 Revenue 68 ($27k) Expenses 157 ($61k) Net assets -4444 ($-33467)
20232024
Revenue (68)Expenses (157)Net assets (-4444)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $753 to $14k (+1803%).

$753
$14k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GIVING FRIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$753
’23
−$34k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
$30k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of GIVING FRIDGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

GIVING FRIDGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 GIVING FRIDGE INC.

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of GIVING FRIDGE INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

VT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GIVING FRIDGE INC's revenue fell 32% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−128% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−32% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In Vermont

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds GIVING FRIDGE INC?
GIVING FRIDGE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being PORTER HOSPITAL INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GIVING FRIDGE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,500 in grants to GIVING FRIDGE INC.
Who is the largest funder of GIVING FRIDGE INC?
PORTER HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIVING FRIDGE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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