Minnesota · Nonprofit
MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION
MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,249 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($105,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Midwest Food Connection does
Mission
Midwest Food Connection's purpose is to promote education in healthy foods and eating habits, organic foods, the organic industry, and cooperative food stores and the cooperative community through teaching programs to elementary schools in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization inspires young people to deepen their relationship with food in ways that benefit their bodies, their communities and the earth. The program has been in the classroom, bringing engaging food education to students in grades k-8. Through hands-on activities like cooking, gardening and art, children learn about fresh foods and get excited about making healthy food choices. The program is one which supports the educational efforts in the organic industry and the cooperative community in bringing free lesssons about natural foods and sustainable agriculture to elementary schools in the twin cities, minnesota area.
$188,781 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $188,781.
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 2019 to 2020, from $31k to $77k (+151%).
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.
83% of MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $66k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION’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
MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 99% · 2022 56% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION: 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 MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION?
- MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,249 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($105,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $262,249 in grants to MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION?
- THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $105,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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