Minnesota · Nonprofit
MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF
MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,405 to it, the largest being HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARTIBLE TR ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF has grown faster than half of the 14,813 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Mower County Incshared funders
- Coastal Harvestportfolio match
- Foundation for Essential Needsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
97% of MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $35k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF’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
MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 54% · 2021 86% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — 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 MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Mower County Incshared fundersMN · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Essential Needsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akron-Canton Regional Foodbankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Linn Benton Food Shareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF?
- MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,405 to it, the largest being HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARTIBLE TR ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $114,405 in grants to MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF?
- HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARTIBLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing