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HIDDEN HARVEST

HIDDEN HARVEST (Michigan) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,508,077 to it, the largest being Saginaw Community Foundation ($376,854). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$12M
32/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Hidden Harvest does

Mission

Alleviate hunger in tri-county area

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization established and maintains a system of providing a safe and coordinated system of rescuing food and redistribuitng it to needy people. Approximately 3,817,693 pounds of food were distributed

    $12,138,223 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,138,223.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.8M)2020 Revenue 135 ($4.2M) Expenses 127 ($4.1M) Net assets 106 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 154 ($4.8M) Expenses 143 ($4.6M) Net assets 121 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 118 ($3.6M) Expenses 115 ($3.7M) Net assets 107 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 167 ($5.2M) Expenses 140 ($4.5M) Net assets 128 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 238 ($7.4M) Expenses 147 ($4.7M) Net assets 198 ($9.4M)2025 Revenue 460 ($14M) Expenses 383 ($12M) Net assets 244 ($12M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (460)Expenses (383)Net assets (244)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 $6.1M to $9.5M (+56%).

$4.8M
$5.1M
$5.8M
$5.1M
$6.1M
$9.5M
$12M
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of HIDDEN HARVEST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$108k
’19
$116k
’20
$180k
’21
−$26k
’22
$669k
’23
$2.7M
’24
$2.0M
’25
2.2
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.

Board chair

Christopher Girard

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed12121517181818
Joined·+3+4+3+3+9+5
No longer listed·311295
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $160k → $437k.

7 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 HIDDEN HARVEST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

HIDDEN HARVEST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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

56% 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 HIDDEN HARVEST.

15%
largest funder
35%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 45% · 2019 48% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 45% · 2023 29% — 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

55% of HIDDEN HARVEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of HIDDEN HARVEST's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

WI
MI
NY
OH
CO

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $779k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Against its field

HIDDEN HARVEST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like HIDDEN HARVEST

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIDDEN HARVEST: 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 HIDDEN HARVEST?
HIDDEN HARVEST (Michigan) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,508,077 to it, the largest being Saginaw Community Foundation ($376,854). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIDDEN HARVEST have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,508,077 in grants to HIDDEN HARVEST, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIDDEN HARVEST?
Saginaw Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $376,854 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIDDEN HARVEST 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.

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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 48 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