Missouri · Nonprofit
KANBE'S MARKETS
KANBE'S MARKETS (Missouri) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,620,687 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Kanbe's Markets does
Mission
Kanbe's Markets is working to build a more equitable and efficient food system in kansas city by intercepting excess food and redirecting it through our programs to serve communities facing chronic fresh food insecurity and active food crises.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy corner store program. Kanbe's Markets operates a network of fresh food retail locations embedded within kansas city's most food-insecure communities. The organization delivers fresh produce daily to neighborhood corner stores, converting existing retail infrastructure into reliable access points for perishable food, requiring no behavior change from residents and no new construction.
$1,734,817 spent$230,330 earned by the program29% of program spendingFood redirection program. Kanbe's Markets rescues surplus perishable food from wholesale partners and redistributes it across multiple segments of the food system. Recovered product moves through a four-tier cascade: retail sale through healthy corner stores, donation to charitable food partners, animal feed, and compost. This model diverts millions of pounds of food from waste annually while directing the highest-quality rescued product toward communities with the greatest need.
$4,040,677 spent$77,282 earned by the program68% of program spendingOther various programs including wholesale distribution
$140,651 spent$2,836 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,916,145.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $2.2M (+75%).
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: 2020 1% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of KANBE'S MARKETS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Maxfield Kaniger
Founder/CEO
Board chair
Jennifer Malone
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $56k → $780k.
14 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 KANBE'S MARKETS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
KANBE'S MARKETS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
40% 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 KANBE'S MARKETS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 45% · 2019 50% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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
39% of KANBE'S MARKETS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
KANBE'S MARKETS draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $936k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
KANBE'S MARKETS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KANBE'S MARKETS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $520k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Department of Agriculture$20k
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 KANBE'S MARKETS
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 Missouri
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
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KANBE'S MARKETS: 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 KANBE'S MARKETS?
- KANBE'S MARKETS (Missouri) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,620,687 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANBE'S MARKETS have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $5,620,687 in grants to KANBE'S MARKETS, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANBE'S MARKETS?
- THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANBE'S MARKETS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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