Minnesota · Nonprofit
Murray County Food Shelf Inc
Murray County Food Shelf Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,224 to it, the largest being HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ($30,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Murray County Food Shelf Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,430 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,430 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation Inclocal
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio match
- Coastal Harvestportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $18k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Murray County Food Shelf 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
Murray County Food Shelf Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Murray County Food Shelf Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 34% · 2021 91% · 2022 70% · 2023 70% — 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
100% of Murray County Food Shelf Inc's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Worthington Regional Health Care Foundation InclocalMN · funds 25 organizations near you
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Essential Needsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio 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
- Ozarks Food Harvest Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio 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 Murray County Food Shelf 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
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 Murray County Food Shelf 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 Murray County Food Shelf Inc?
- Murray County Food Shelf Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,224 to it, the largest being HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ($30,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Murray County Food Shelf Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $77,224 in grants to Murray County Food Shelf Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Murray County Food Shelf Inc?
- HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $30,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Murray County Food Shelf Inc 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