Michigan · Nonprofit
KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC
KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC (Michigan) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,781,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($917,038). 142 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 212
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Kids' Food Basket Inc does
Mission
Kids' food basket nourishes children to reach their full potential - services include a sack supper program, community-driven farming, family food provision, and educational programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provide healthy, nutritious, ready-to-eat meals each weekday to children experiencing food insecurtiy. Access is the foundation of good health, and the flagship sack supper program and weekend meal delivery provided a total of 1,874,000 meals served (an average of 11,000 meals are prepared, packed, and delivered each school day across west michigan). This work cannot be done without the support of daily volunteers. Volunteers provided almost 78,000 hours of time in supporting this workk. When including volunteer hours valued at 32.87/hour, adjusted program efficiency is 81%.
$4,782,765 spent79% of program spendingWe use our facilities and farms as classrooms to foster a deeper understanding of where food comes from and why it is important, empowering children to make lifelong healthy choices. Education is the foundation in which long term change is made. Our dynamic hands-on curriculum connects students to healthy food, how its grown, and why it matters.
$517,346 spent$13,986 earned by the program9% of program spendingWe increase healthy food access for our communities through the growth and distribution of sustainably grown vegetables and fruits on our chemical- free farms. Agriculture is the foundation on which access and education are made possible. Our sustainable farmland hosts community volunteerism and agriculture classrooms to strengthen the community.
$507,349 spent$941 earned by the program8% of program spendingAdvocacy and community engagement
$227,853 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,035,313.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.1M to $9.0M (+46%).
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: 2019 14% · 2021 7% · 2022 23% · 2023 11% · 2024 14% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
Mary Command
Bd chair & t
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 95 funders, grant income rose $973k → $1.7M.
32 of 212 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 212 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
KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
53% 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 26% · 2019 11% · 2020 19% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% — 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
51% of KIDS' FOOD BASKET 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
76% of KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC is better cushioned than half 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $597k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$597k
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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC?
- KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC (Michigan) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,781,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($917,038). 142 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC have?
- IRS filings report 212 organizations giving $13,781,450 in grants to KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC, 142 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $917,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 212 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