Colorado · Nonprofit
MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN
MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN (Colorado) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,646,313 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ($435,125). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen does
Mission
The mission of manna soup kitchen is to provide, in the spirit of faith and love, nourishing meals and supportive services in an atmosphere of acceptance and caring for those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Resource Center: Manna's Resource Center has operated since March 2022, and launched this holistic model following over 35 years of operating as a traditional soup kitchen. Manna's Resource Center operates as a navigation hub, reducing barriers to assistance and addressing the root causes of food insecurity by offering comprehensive supportive services and food access in one place. Resource Center Navigators provide case management, service navigation, housing assistance, job development, transportation assistance, ID assistance, peer support, and positive encouragement to help program participants overcome social determinants of health barriers and help them become self-sufficient. Manna hosts partner organizations to offer additional onsite services, expanding the range of needs that can be addressed within its facility. While services are available to anyone in the community, Manna primarily supports low-income households, individuals experiencing housing, food, or employment insecurity, including individuals experiencing homelessness, people with disabilities, Latin-x families, Indigenous community members, justice-involved people, students, and seniors. Case Management is…
$2,437,359 spentof which $65,281 as grants61% of program spendingCommunity Kitchen & Food Market: Manna's food access programs respond to the diverse ways in which food insecurity manifests, offering both daily meals and groceries. The Take-out Window provides low-barrier food access by serving hot, daily meals five days a week, four hours a day. All are welcome to receive meals with no questions asked and no forms to be filled out. People can select a variety of food and dietary options, centering participant choice. These meals are not only served at Manna, but delivered to partner agencies across the county,addressing rural food insecurity. In 2025, Manna served 43,139 low-barrier, hot daily meals. Located within the Resource Center, Mannas No-Cost Food Market is like a grocery store with refrigerators, produce, shelf stable food items and shopping carts. Participants freely select from an array of nutritious foods based on dietary needs, culturally appropriate and desired food choices. The Food Market is open four days a week and include evening operating hours accommodate those on varied schedules. In 2025, the Food Market had 12,515 visits and distributed 308,396 pounds of food, serving 2,731 unique individuals. Manna prioritizes…
$1,315,746 spent$14,875 earned by the program33% of program spendingCulinary Program: Since 2014, Mannas Culinary Program has focused on teaching job/life skills and food service industry knowledge to La Plata County's most at-risk populations to help people overcome barriers and achieve gainful employment. Graduates complete the program with a Certificate of Completion and a two-year state recognized Food Handlers Certificate. Beyond kitchen skills, the program also focuses on soft skills for employment, such as communication, financial literacy, and resume building. The Culinary Program not only works with adults who are building employable skills, but also partners with local alternative high schools, teaching the curriculum to at-risk students. In 2025, 37 students graduated from the program, 23 of whom obtained employment.
$181,292 spent$2,100 earned by the program5% of program spendingLow Income Housing: The Manna Resilience House was donated to us in August 2025. The new program offers low-income housing to 4 individuals who are seniors and/or people with disabilities. All tenants pay rent that is 30% of their income. Manna staff provides supportive services to the tenants.
$37,242 spent$7,530 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,971,639.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.9M to $5.2M (+34%).
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: 2020 4% · 2022 42% · 2023 13% · 2024 21% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Nora Stafford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $96k → $543k.
16 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
60% 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 MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 59% · 2019 39% · 2020 22% · 2021 32% · 2022 22% · 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
53% of MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
80% of MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mtsk · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN?
- MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN (Colorado) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,646,313 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO ($435,125). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $3,646,313 in grants to MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $435,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 72 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