North Carolina · Nonprofit
NOW SERVING INC
NOW SERVING INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $387,500 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $311k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $388k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Now Serving Inc does
Mission
Now serving pairs restaurants, caterers, and commercial kitchens (meal makers) with community agencies to deliver healthy meals to neighbors in need. With our resources, meal makers integrate community meals into their operations and connect with trusted partners to enable efficient distribution. This fresh approach to hunger relief has three main benefits: it provides regular income to local business producing community meals, gives community agencies input on meal quantity and type, and most importantly, provides nutritious, ready-to-consume meals to recipients. Our vision is a sustainable support system to uplift residents across north carolina and the south.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Now serving is a nonprofit organization based in raleigh, nc, that pairs community-based organizations (cbos) with restaurants to provide healthy meals to neighbors in need. With our resources, restaurants integrate community meals into their operations and connect with trusted partners to enable efficient distribution. With recipients always top-of-mind, meals are nutritious, culturally conscious, and ready-to-eat.
$164,847 spent$54,499 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,847.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $93k to $57k (−39%).
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.
85% of NOW SERVING INC’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. 2 of the last 3 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
Greg Lowenhagen
Executive director
Board chair
Jesma Reynolds
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 NOW SERVING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
NOW SERVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 NOW SERVING INC.
“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
52% of NOW SERVING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $188k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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
NOW SERVING INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NOW SERVING 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Supper Table Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOW SERVING 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NOW SERVING INC?
- NOW SERVING INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $387,500 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NOW SERVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $387,500 in grants to NOW SERVING INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOW SERVING INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOW SERVING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 11 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