Kansas · Nonprofit
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $471,027 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($174,688). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $471k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Lawrence Community Food Alliance Inc does
Mission
Sunrise project serves douglas county by providing space and opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to build an equitable community through education, good food, and social connection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community meals & sunday cafe: sunrise project served 2 community meals a month and prepared 300+ servings each time. Meals are served dine-in and to-go and feature vegetarian recipes that are not only delicious, but nutritious meals are served no-questions-asked. In addition, one sunday a month, we open our doors to the community for free coffee, tea, snacks and social connection. Our sunday cafes are a great opportunity for folks to come together and build relationships.
$76,796 spent69% of program spendingLawrence fruit tree project: this program stewards lawrence community orchard, located in east lawrence. Since 2012, this space has provided the lawrence community with a free food park planted with perennial trees and plants that provide food. Our orchard includes paw paw, asian pear, persimmon, jujube, che, autumn berry, gooseberry, cherry and more. Community members are welcome to harvest produce and enjoy the beauty of the orchard at any time. In addition to our east side orchard, we plant fruit trees in public spaces every spring including: bus stops, public libraries,schools and more sunrise community garden: unlike many community gardens in our community, sunrise garden is a free food garden open to all for harvest and enjoyment. We do not rent out plots or reserve the harvest for volunteers. We recognize that there are many barriers to gardening: time, skill, knowledge, and access to land. Our garden addresses those barriers by providing a garden space that is open to all. Volunteers help maintain the garden and the harvest is for everyone, regardless of their ability to work in the garden.
$29,896 spent27% of program spendingFood rocket and youth programming: our food rocket program takes cooking and growing lessons to schools in the community we work with youth ages 2 -18 to make simple recipes and grow food together. In addition to food rocket, we offer youth internships and hands-on field trips for students in our public school system.
$5,271 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,963.
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 $138k to $71k (−49%).
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 4% · 2019 8% · 2021 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE 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. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $169k → $39k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC’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
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
81% 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 59% · 2019 58% · 2020 75% · 2021 55% · 2022 62% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
51% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE 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 $231k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k 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.
Against its field
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC's revenue fell 64% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$84k
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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC?
- LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $471,027 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($174,688). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $471,027 in grants to LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC?
- DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $174,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 16 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