Minnesota · Nonprofit
MEALS FROM THE HEART
MEALS FROM THE HEART (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $641,441 to it, the largest being DELUXE CORPORATION FOUNDATION ($315,385). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $721k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $641k
- Net assets
- $356k
What Meals From the Heart does
Mission
Meals from the Heart is a nonprofit organization that brings people together to serve their neighbors through easy to execute, energized and fun meal packing events building relationships and strengthening communities while providing flavorful, fortified meals to local food shelves and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Meal Packing Events: Facilitated meal packing events wherevolunteers packed meals given to people in need. In 2024, approximately 1,700,000 meals were packed under the brand name Meals from the Heart.
$598,715 spent$526,305 earned by the program95% of program spendingFood Box: In launching a program called the Budget-Stretcher Food Box during the pandemic, we discovered that 1 in 5 of our active military families were suffering from food insecurity. Partnering with a program called Beyond the Yellow Ribbon, we were able to provide Food Boxes for active-duty Minnesota military families. These families are often in transition and finding schools, childcare, and a place to live and a job for a spouse can be a challenge. Rising inflation is further exacerbating the situation. Our Food Box Program is an ideal solution to help these families make ends meet while they adjust. In 2023, Meals From The Heart delivered approximately 700 food boxes through this great organization.
$32,779 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $631,494.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $478k to $536k (+12%).
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 17% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Louis Cristan
Board Chair/Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $5k → $138k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MEALS FROM THE HEART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
MEALS FROM THE HEART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 MEALS FROM THE HEART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 58% · 2020 39% · 2021 52% · 2022 32% · 2023 58% — 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
25% of MEALS FROM THE HEART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
MEALS FROM THE HEART draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 MEALS FROM THE HEART
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS FROM THE HEART: 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 MEALS FROM THE HEART?
- MEALS FROM THE HEART (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $641,441 to it, the largest being DELUXE CORPORATION FOUNDATION ($315,385). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS FROM THE HEART have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $641,441 in grants to MEALS FROM THE HEART, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS FROM THE HEART?
- DELUXE CORPORATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS FROM THE HEART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 23 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