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KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE

KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,222 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($307,617). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$681k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$926k
Net assets
$1.8M
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Knead Community Cafe does

Mission

Knead Community Cafe is a gathering place that nourishes the body and soul. Offering meals that are pay as you can, we provide fresh wholesome food that is seasoned with love,

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Offering meals that are pay as you can, we provide fresh wholesome food that is seasoned with love, where all are welcome. In our initial period we developed the space and the infrastructure to accomplish our mission. During 2017 we opened up to the public and began our program services continuing during 2023.

    $355,241 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $355,241.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($290k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($270k)2018 Revenue 116 ($338k) Expenses 103 ($162k) Net assets 168 ($453k)2019 Revenue 106 ($308k) Expenses 117 ($185k) Net assets 213 ($576k)2020 Revenue 161 ($467k) Expenses 150 ($236k) Net assets 299 ($806k)2021 Revenue 196 ($568k) Expenses 136 ($214k) Net assets 430 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 212 ($615k) Expenses 219 ($345k) Net assets 529 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 154 ($445k) Expenses 224 ($353k) Net assets 564 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 235 ($681k) Expenses 257 ($406k) Net assets 665 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (235)Expenses (257)Net assets (665)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 $1.7M to $1.9M (+15%).

$625k
$758k
$822k
$999k
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$132k
’17
$176k
’18
$123k
’19
$231k
’20
$353k
’21
$269k
’22
$92k
’23
$275k
’24
23
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed71081213151414
Joined·+3+1+6+1+2+1+2
No longer listed·0320022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $156k → $86k.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

57% 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 KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE.

33%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 68% · 2019 38% · 2020 76% · 2021 36% · 2022 24% · 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

73% of KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

88% of KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MA
OH
PA
RI
MO
VA

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE

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 Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE?
KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $926,222 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($307,617). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $926,222 in grants to KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE?
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $307,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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