Minnesota · Nonprofit
LOAVES AND FISHES TOO
LOAVES AND FISHES TOO (Minnesota) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,299,421 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,834,789). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $778k
What Loaves and Fishes Too does
Mission
To provide healthy meals to minnesotans in areas where the need is greatest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Loaves and fishes' free meal programming provided 6.3 million healthy meals in calendar year 2025. We operated in 11 counties through our public dining site locations, street outreach locations, summer meal sites for students, after-school meal and snack program locations, produce market, and our partner program called the hub which provides food to small groups and nonprofits. In all, we serve food through over 33 community meal partners. A combination of staff, partners and volunteers cook and serve meals every day of the week, year-round.
$25,031,810 spentof which $22,035,652 as grants$86,613 earned by the program96% of program spendingInstitutional: institutional revenues include fee-based services around prepared meals in an institutional setting beginning in fiscal year 2024. The organization provides prepared meals for individuals who are living in an institutional setting and in some instances, staff of the organization will also serve these meals as well. The majority of individuals served in this setting are those who would be serviced through our traditional meal programming. Services provided in this manner allow for nutritional meals to be provided to additional individuals within the communities served.
$1,021,455 spent$881,219 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,053,265.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $3.5M (+54%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kiley Benson
Executive director
Board chair
John Larson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $269k → $1.1M.
24 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 LOAVES AND FISHES TOO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
LOAVES AND FISHES TOO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
76% 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 LOAVES AND FISHES TOO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 20% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of LOAVES AND FISHES TOO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
60% of LOAVES AND FISHES TOO'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 $3.3M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Minnesota 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 15 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.
Organizations like LOAVES AND FISHES TOO
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOAVES AND FISHES TOO: 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 LOAVES AND FISHES TOO?
- LOAVES AND FISHES TOO (Minnesota) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,299,421 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,834,789). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOAVES AND FISHES TOO have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $8,299,421 in grants to LOAVES AND FISHES TOO, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOAVES AND FISHES TOO?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,834,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOAVES AND FISHES TOO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 87 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