Texas · Nonprofit
NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START
NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $24k
What Needful Things Fresh Start does
Mission
The Needful Things Outreach Program expanded its impact in 2025 by providing consistent high volume support to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or financial hardship. Each Saturday, we distributed fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, and drinks to approximately 200 to 250 families, ensuring reliable access to nutritious meals. We provided weekly hygiene packs with soap, toothpaste, shampoo, and clean towels to about 150 individuals, helping them maintain health and dignity. Our program supplied essential items such as clothing, blankets, socks, warm clothing, and toiletries to roughly 300 to 350 individuals each month, offering comfort and safety during times of instability. We also donated 50 percent of our expanded 2025 inventory to the Toys for Tots program, supporting their mission to bring joy to children in need and strengthening our reach across rural communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Approved program for Toys for Tots
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We had to remove the Youth Skillz program due to lack of funding to launch a full program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The Needful Things Outreach Program significantly expanded its impact in 2025 by providing consistent, high volume support to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or financial hardship. Each Saturday, we distributed fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, and drinks to approximately 200 to 250 families, ensuring reliable access to nutritious meals. We provided weekly hygiene packs containing soap, toothpaste, shampoo, and clean towels to about 150 individuals, helping them maintain health and dignity. Our program supplied essential items such as clothing, blankets, socks, warm clothing, and toiletries to roughly 300 to 350 individuals each month, offering comfort and safety during times of instability. In addition, we donated 50 percent of our expanded 2025 inventory to the Toys for Tots program, supporting their mission to bring joy to children in need. These combined efforts strengthened our reach across rural communities and demonstrated our commitment to meeting urgent needs with consistency, compassion, and operational efficiency.
$0 spent$247,606 earned by the programFresh Skillz Ignite Program: Partnered with 3 youth shelters to provide readiness skills to your facing homelessness and recently released from detention centers. This year we were able to help donate item to 3 youth shelters, donate to Toys for Tots, provide 2 family in need with Christmas gifts and provide 1 youth with a part time job.
$0 spentNeedful Things Fresh Start provides emergency essential goods support to families, children, and unsheltered neighbors across rural Johnson, Ellis, and Hill Counties in Texas. Through our warehouse distribution program, we supply food, clothing, hygiene items, diapers, household goods, and crisis response materials to individuals facing hardship. We partner with schools, churches, social workers, and local agencies to identify urgent needs and deliver direct assistance at no cost. Our outreach includes monthly community distributions, emergency deliveries for families in crisis, and coordinated support for individuals experiencing homelessness. This program reduces material insecurity in underserved rural areas and ensures vulnerable residents have immediate access to basic necessities during times of instability.
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $4k to $24k (+499%).
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.
1% of NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Dederick Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Against its field
NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START
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
0% 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 NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START: 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 NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START?
- NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $0 in grants to NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START.
- Who is the largest funder of NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START?
- GOOD360 is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEEDFUL THINGS FRESH START 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing