Texas · Nonprofit
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC (Texas) receives grants from 314 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,236,184 to it, the largest being Michael & Susan Dell Foundation ($23,493,094). 176 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 314
- Grants received
- $87M
- Net assets
- $179M
What Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc does
Mission
To provide food and clothing and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mobile loaves & fishes, inc. ("mlf") is a christian outreach ministry that empowers communities in to a lifestyle of service with the homeless. Mlf's mission is to provide food and clothing, cultivate community and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need. Delivering more than a sandwich, mobile loaves & fishes' food truck volunteers hit the streets 7 nights a week, 365 days a year to provide food, clothing, hygiene products and other life-sustaining items to our homesless neighbors. With the support of more than 35,473 volunteers and over 6.5 million meals served, mobile loaves & fishes is the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless and working poor in austin, texas.
$2,825,733 spentof which $7,140 as grants$315,495 earned by the program11% of program spendingThe relationships developed through mlf's truck ministry are often the beginning of a journey home for the homeless. Community first! Village is a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the chronically homeless in austin, texas. The development is currently undergoing a significant expansion which will add 127 more acres and room for 1,400 more homes. Since 2005, this transformative residential program has been a staple of mobile loaves & fishes and has become the largest community-based model in the country lifting homeless men and women up off the streets into community and home.
$21,185,822 spentof which $8,685,900 as grants$2,364,975 earned by the program86% of program spendingCommunity works provides micro-enterprise opportunities that enable men and women who are coming out of chronic homelessness to use their god-given talents to earn a dignified income. In addition, the program empowers mobile loaves & fishes volunteers to serve alongside our friends as they develop new skills while cultivating enduring relationships. Micro-enterprise opportunities currently available through community works include gardening, art, hospitality, groundskeeping, housekeeping, janitorial, and other jobs.
$671,352 spent$74,947 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,682,907.
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 2021 to 2022, from $62M to $165M (+165%).
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 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Alan Graham
CEO
Board chair
Larry Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 51 funders to 127 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $16M.
46 of 314 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Canfield Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 314 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
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 14% · 2019 35% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 37% · 2023 37% — 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
43% of MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
67% of MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Mobile Loaves & Fishes Support Corporation · exempt
- Mobile Loaves & Fishes Support Corporation 3 · exempt
- Mobile Loaves & Fishes Support Corporation 4 · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC?
- MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC (Texas) receives grants from 314 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,236,184 to it, the largest being Michael & Susan Dell Foundation ($23,493,094). 176 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC have?
- IRS filings report 314 organizations giving $87,236,184 in grants to MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC, 176 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC?
- Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $23,493,094 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 314 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