Massachusetts · Nonprofit
OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY
OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $359 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($271). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,225 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,225 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- New Bedford Economic Development Council Inclocal
- Coastal Harvestportfolio match
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $55 → $148.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 OPEN SHELVES FOOD 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
OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
75% of OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY'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 $88 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271 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.
- New Bedford Economic Development Council InclocalMA · funds 158 organizations near you
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Solutions Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Essential Needsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akron-Canton Regional Foodbankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Food Bank Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Incportfolio 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 OPEN SHELVES FOOD 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SHELVES FOOD 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 OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY?
- OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $359 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($271). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $359 in grants to OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $271 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SHELVES FOOD PANTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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