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Mary's Meals USA Inc
Mary's Meals USA Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,838,159 to it, the largest being NORTH AMERICAN CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOUNDATION INC ($28,000,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $52M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Mary's Meals USA Inc does
Mission
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises (cont'd on Page 41) especially by providing care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children; and (iii) raise awareness of poverty issues through education. MMUSA grants such donations at the discretion of its Board through Mary's Meals International, headquartered in Dalmally, Scotland, for specific country programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mary's Meals International is a successful global movement that transforms the lives of children with a daily meal in a place of education in 16 of the world's poorest countries. Working collaboratively with local communities, Mary's Meals International establishes school feeding programs that draw children to schools, where they can receive an education that can be a path out of poverty. The Mary's Meals International program supports children but also has a positive impact on their households and communities.Sourcing food locally whenever possible, Mary's Meals International operates in some of the world's poorest, and most remote or conflict-ridden communities. The collaborative Mary's Meals school feeding program is particularly efficient and (cont'd on page 41) scalable, providing a cost-effective model that is a sustainable means to end child hunger. Mary's Meals USA provides grants to Mary's Meals International to fund the school feeding programs. In 2025, Mary's Meals USA marked 16 years of supporting Mary's Meals International's global feeding initiatives. While ensuring that 3 million children receive a nutritious meal every day in a place of education, Mary's Meals…
$21,105,000 spentof which $21,105,000 as grants94% of program spendingMary's Meals USA also focuses on education and awareness raising programs in the US on the impact of child hunger and the importance of school feeding programs. This awareness-raising program portion of the work allows the opportunity for more US volunteers to join Mary's Meals and become advocates for children in poverty. Staff and volunteers visit schools, groups, and organizations to give presentations about the work of Mary's Meals. Mary's Meals USA provides documentary films, brochures, and other materials to support these efforts. Regular emails and letters are sent to those who have requested updates so the information can be shared in their communities.Over the course of 2025, (cont'd on page 43) some of Mary's Meals USA awareness activities included: The 12th Annual Race to Feed Children in Des Moines, IA Annual Concerts to Benefit Mary's Meals in Iowa & Missouri Annual Summer Concert Series across multiple Iowa sites by performer Steve Angrisano Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow spoke in Kentucky and Ohio, with events that included accompanying activities to engage a wider audience in the mission. The 2nd Annual Concert for a Cause in Columbus, OH The 1st Sound of Hope…
$1,435,408 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,540,408.
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 $5.6M to $3.0M (−46%).
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: 2018 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Mary's Meals USA Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
Terry Losada-Bonet
Executive Director
Board chair
Jacob Allen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $8.4M.
28 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Mary's Meals USA Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
Mary's Meals USA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 Mary's Meals USA Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 26% · 2019 56% · 2020 30% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 2023 71% — 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
47% of Mary's Meals USA 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
Mary's Meals USA Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
Mary's Meals USA Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Mary's Meals USA Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record — $5.4M federal, $1k state.
- Agency for International Development$5.4M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1k
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 Mary's Meals USA 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 New Jersey
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
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mary's Meals USA 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 Mary's Meals USA Inc?
- Mary's Meals USA Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,838,159 to it, the largest being NORTH AMERICAN CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOUNDATION INC ($28,000,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mary's Meals USA Inc have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $51,838,159 in grants to Mary's Meals USA Inc, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mary's Meals USA Inc?
- NORTH AMERICAN CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mary's Meals USA Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 115 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