Michigan · Nonprofit
MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE
MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,134 to it, the largest being McGregor Fund ($320,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared funders
- Refed Incportfolio match
- The Society of St Andrew Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2023 7% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $85k → $251k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE’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
MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 59% · 2022 58% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Refed Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Society of St Andrew Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Means Database Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmlink Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Missouri Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Buffalove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Finders Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Illinois Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$60k
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 MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE?
- MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,134 to it, the largest being McGregor Fund ($320,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $968,134 in grants to MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE?
- McGregor Fund is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing