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HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC

HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,581 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($107,640). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$576k
Net assets
$3.5M
15/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Hickory Soup Kitchen Inc does

Mission

To help relieve hunger in our community. We recognize that the total needs of individuals must be addressed, and will seek to facilitate the meeting of other needs. However, our primary purpose is that of providing nutritious meals to the hungry of our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided daily meals and showers to the homeless and indigent of catawba county. Served 64,588 individuals (82,913 plates, 9,236 showers) during 2025.

    $614,874 spent
    88% of program spending
  2. Grocery outreach program. Provided free grocery store items to indigent familes. Served over 600 families monthly. Service provided from 8:30 am to 11:15 am, monday through friday.

    $44,628 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Hope program. Worked with employment agencies to help people in need of work find jobs. Provided transportation assistance to those who lacked transportation to get to those jobs. Served 152 individuals during 2025, resulting in 33 successful long-term employment opportunities.

    $36,150 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $695,652.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($437k) Expenses 100 ($342k) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 147 ($644k) Expenses 130 ($444k) Net assets 111 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 151 ($661k) Expenses 141 ($483k) Net assets 117 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 149 ($650k) Expenses 154 ($527k) Net assets 113 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 128 ($559k) Expenses 194 ($663k) Net assets 117 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 194 ($847k) Expenses 204 ($699k) Net assets 124 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 241 ($1.1M) Expenses 223 ($762k) Net assets 140 ($3.5M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (241)Expenses (223)Net assets (140)

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 $3.1M to $3.5M (+13%).

$2.5M
$2.8M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$3.1M
$3.5M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2%. 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’19
$201k
’20
$178k
’21
$123k
’22
−$104k
’23
$149k
’24
$292k
’25
14
months of
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

Austin Pearce

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed26262626272727
Joined·+6+5+3+2+7+8
No longer listed·653178
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $12k → $121k.

8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN 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

HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

58% 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 HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC.

19%
largest funder
39%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 63% · 2020 49% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% — 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

45% of HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

53% of HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $268k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
PA
NJ
CT
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 6%Fundraising 3%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC?
HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,581 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($107,640). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $575,581 in grants to HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC?
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 25 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