Oregon · Nonprofit
MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC
MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC (Oregon) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,201,092 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($1,462,678). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Marion-Polk Food Share Inc does
Mission
Bringing people together to end hunger and its root causes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We distribute nutritious food for individuals and families to more than 80 local partners, including food pantries and meal sites, and deliver meals on wheels to homebound seniors and adults with disabilities. We operate an urban farm and support a network of community gardens that connect people and their food, and mobilize community members to address systemic issues that lead to hunger. Thousands of local volunteers, advocates and donors bring our mission to life every day.
$18,864,858 spentof which $12,998,157 as grants$1,481,124 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,864,858.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $19M (+51%).
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 10% · 2018 10% · 2019 15% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 22% · 2023 16% · 2024 22% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Rick Gaupo
Executive director
Board chair
Holly Nelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $580k → $758k.
18 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
65% 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 MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 15% · 2022 32% · 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
52% of MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
56% of MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE 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 $3.6M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3.7M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$321k
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$82k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$44k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$39k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$26k
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 MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Senior Townhouse Inc · exempt
- All Woodburn Area Resources Enlisted Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: 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 MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC?
- MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC (Oregon) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,201,092 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($1,462,678). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $8,201,092 in grants to MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC?
- THE SALEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,462,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 76 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