New Hampshire · Nonprofit
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,725 to it, the largest being Metta Charitable Foundation ($430,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $902k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $765k
What Kearsarge Food Hub Inc does
Mission
Kearsarge food hub's mission is to reinvigorate our community within a restorative local food system by cultivating food sovereignty, growing engaged learners, and nurturing community. We accomplish this through our food access and security work, food and farm-based education and community building, partnerships and leadership. We serve the greater kearsarge/lake sunapee region (merrimack and sullivan counties) of new hampshire. The kearsarge food hub envisions a resilient and connected community where everyone is empowered to access healthy food, where local farmers are supported and the land is nourished and where all people share a common sense of place.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
1. Sweet beet market is kearsarge food hub (kfh)'s local food marketplace. We work with food pantries and gleaning organizations, and operate a community freedge on site to provide consistent donations of fresh local produce, groceries, and prepared meals from our cafe. In 2022, kfh served 900+ clients from 6 pantries by donating more than $95k worth of food, 67% or 18,275 lbs of which was fresh produce. Food distributed to customers and food insecure clients through sbm were purchased from more than 156 local and regional farmers and food vendors.
$329,451 spentof which $98,672 as grants$146,007 earned by the program59% of program spending2.through sweet beet cafe, kfh provides healthy and nourishing scratch-made foods using fresh ingredients sourced predominantly from local farmers and food vendors, both for sale through our retail channels as well as for donation through our on-site freedge. The cafe also makes use of products that would otherwise go to waste from the local food system to reduce overall food waste and increase affordability. In 2022, 15,486 meals were distributed, 670+ were donated through the freedge - a value of approximately $8,690.
$181,406 spent$240,556 earned by the program32% of program spending3. Kfh's sweet beet farm grows organic vegetables while offering farm-based education for students k-12 and beyond, with the ultimate goal of growing more farmers. The regenerative farming methods used and taught support environmental sustainability through low-impact tools and equipment, eliminating the use of harmful chemicals and inputs, employing ecologically-minded approaches, and reducing on-farm waste. In 2022, kfh hosted more than 205 students through 5 distinct educational programs on the farm, all while providing more than 19,425 lbs of organic produce to the local community through sweet beet market + cafe, kfh's food pantry partners, and other local sales channels.
$51,438 spent$16,445 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $562,295.
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 $428k to $782k (+83%).
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 5% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $5k → $736k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 36% · 2022 43% · 2023 54% — 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
100% of KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
54% of KEARSARGE FOOD HUB 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 $712k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $831k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$70k
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 KEARSARGE FOOD HUB 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC: 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 KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC?
- KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,725 to it, the largest being Metta Charitable Foundation ($430,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,542,725 in grants to KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC?
- Metta Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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