Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Kinship MKE Inc
Kinship MKE Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,159,722 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,011,558). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Kinship MKE Inc does
Mission
Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger isolation and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish food security and wellness foster belonging and community engagement and empower stability and economic prosperity in our city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
When a person walks into Kinship Community Food Center Organization he or she enters a social ecosystem created around food designed to propel his or her journey toward health belonging and stability. As people shop cook grow and share food they find social connectedness and support that generates the confidence to achieve their goals. The Organization offers several programs which address food scarcity and help the whole person thrive. They are briefly described below: Shop | Fresh Food Market Shop is a fresh food market that integrates health education cooking demonstrations a food bar and connections to community resources. In 2025 466,000 pounds of food were given to more than 19,000 community members. The Organization served breakfasts & dinners from our community kitchen and held food preparation demos provided by community chefs. Nearly 90% of our community members say they are now cooking at home because of shopping at our fresh food market. Grow | Urban Farm To feed and educate the community the Organization operated a 27,000 square foot urban hoop house vegetable farm and gardens that grew over 20,000 pounds of fresh local and organic produce in 2025. The Organization…
$1,424,278 spent$1,775 earned by the program51% of program spendingStride | Crisis Assistance and Mentoring Stride is a mentoring program that accompanies people in crisis to overcome barriers to health and economic stability. The Organization prevented eviction and or homelessness for 125 families through direct assistance and referrals and stabilized 510 families through employment assistance transportation assistance prevention of utility disconnections and or obtaining needed household goods. Workforce | Employment Readiness and Training Workforce is a paid work experience that integrates social connection and human development to create a healing path toward steady employment and economic mobility. The Organization officially launched its workforce program in 2023 and it combines culinary training with therapeutic practices and personalized coaching. Graduates are matched with careers in their fields of interest and remain active in the Kinship community beyond completion.
$526,206 spent19% of program spendingKinship Cafe | Our Social Enterprise The Organization opened Kinship Cafe in 2024 in partnership with the ThriveOn Collaboration a new community hub in Milwaukee dedicated to health education and economic wellness. Kinship Cafe offers delicious meals crafted with love creativity and the freshest from-scratch ingredients. The Cafe supports Workforce Trainees who gain culinary and customer service skills and experience in teamwork and communication empowering their path to stability and economic prosperity in our city.
$489,134 spent$132,329 earned by the program18% of program spendingForm | Education and Engagement Form is service-learning and workshops that empower volunteers and neighborhood residents to become leaders of generosity and advocate for the betterment of society. Community members gave 23,000 hours of volunteer services in 2025 which included 80 groups. One third of the Organizations committed volunteers are also shoppers. Nearly 3,000 people participated in our community education training. Mission Internship | A Year of Service In 2025 our ninth year of the Mission Internship program four women gave a year of their life in service to the community while living together in a neighborhood home near the food center. More than just learning to coordinate the operational functions of our food center and farm the mission interns established real relationships to support shoppers volunteers and one another. They also participated in weekly formation sessions and gathered for prayer at the start of each morning.
$354,314 spent$-9,528 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,793,932.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.9M to $20M (+156%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Kinship MKE Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Vincent Noth
President CEO
Board chair
David Bourne
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $67k → $477k.
18 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Kinship MKE Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
Kinship MKE Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 Kinship MKE Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 56% · 2019 37% · 2020 41% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 29% — 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
42% of Kinship MKE Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
65% of Kinship MKE 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Kinship MKE Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Kinship MKE 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Kinship MKE 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 Kinship MKE Inc?
- Kinship MKE Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,159,722 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,011,558). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kinship MKE Inc have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $4,159,722 in grants to Kinship MKE Inc, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kinship MKE Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,011,558 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kinship MKE Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 68 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