Connecticut · Nonprofit
MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC
MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,424 to it, the largest being MERIDEN FOUNDATION ($120,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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 Meriden & Wallingford Incshared funders
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio match
- Worcester County Food Bank Incportfolio 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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $38k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC’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
MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 86% · 2019 66% · 2020 68% · 2021 51% · 2022 38% · 2023 40% — 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
40% of MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 179 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Incshared fundersCT · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Worcester County Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Foodbank Warehouseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MFS Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Foodshare Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akron-Canton Regional Foodbankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spectrum Health Systems Incportfolio 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 MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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 MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN 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.
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 MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC?
- MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,424 to it, the largest being MERIDEN FOUNDATION ($120,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $264,424 in grants to MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC?
- MERIDEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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