Minnesota · Nonprofit
MN VETERANS PANTRY
MN VETERANS PANTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,600 to it, the largest being Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation ($30,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MN VETERANS PANTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,762 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,762 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trustportfolio match
- 44 North Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 MN VETERANS PANTRY’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
MN VETERANS PANTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% 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
40% 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 MN VETERANS PANTRY.
“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 MN VETERANS PANTRY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 44 North Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Post #580portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Birmingham-Dorsey Char Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ledoux Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Solutions Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doherty Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph R Bayer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Minneapolis Council of Churchesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harold F Griffiths Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
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 MN VETERANS PANTRY
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.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MN VETERANS PANTRY: 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 MN VETERANS PANTRY?
- MN VETERANS PANTRY (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,600 to it, the largest being Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation ($30,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MN VETERANS PANTRY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $94,600 in grants to MN VETERANS PANTRY.
- Who is the largest funder of MN VETERANS PANTRY?
- Kendrick B Melrose Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MN VETERANS PANTRY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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