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MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN

MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,000 to it, the largest being AINSWORTH FOUNDATION ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$92k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$242k
Net assets
$276k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Meadville Community Soup Kitchen does

Mission

Provide noon meal to anyone in need

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Volunteers from crawford county serve the noon meal 5 days a week to approximately 80-135 people under the supervision of a part-time coordinator

    $90,413 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,413.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($116k)2020 Revenue 223 ($148k) Expenses 81 ($60k) Net assets 176 ($204k)2021 Revenue 180 ($119k) Expenses 95 ($71k) Net assets 218 ($252k)2022 Revenue 200 ($133k) Expenses 106 ($79k) Net assets 265 ($306k)2023 Revenue 144 ($95k) Expenses 120 ($90k) Net assets 270 ($312k)2024 Revenue 138 ($92k) Expenses 171 ($128k) Net assets 238 ($276k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (138)Expenses (171)Net assets (238)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $117k to $205k (+75%).

$117k
$205k
$254k
$308k
$314k
$276k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’19
$88k
’20
$49k
’21
$54k
’22
$6k
’23
−$36k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $25k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN’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

MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN has grown faster than half of the 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN?
MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,000 to it, the largest being AINSWORTH FOUNDATION ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $242,000 in grants to MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN?
AINSWORTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing