North Carolina · Nonprofit
Open Table Ministry Inc
Open Table Ministry Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,202,046 to it, the largest being THE MARIO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($785,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $706k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $741k
What Open Table Ministry Inc does
Mission
Open Table Ministry seeks out and guides people experiencing homelessness and poverty toward long-term health and wholeness by building ongoing trusting relationships, meeting practical and personal needs, making connections to community resources, and bridging critical gaps in the social services system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Free Store & Get to Work: We provide our unsheltered neighbors with essential items such as new clothing, shoes, hygiene products, and blankets to help them stay protected from the elements. The Free Store is a large outreach event held every Tuesday, where we not only distribute needed supplies but also connect individuals with community partners (including Fresh Start Durham, which provides showers), to help connect individuals with mainstream resources. In 2025, the Free Store served 1,101 individuals and distributed 25,612 items, including 552 winter coats, 2,065 hygiene kits, 1,126 pairs of shoes, 701 pairs of jeans, 2,971 shirts, and 49 backpacks.Our Get to Work program equips individuals with work-related items such as work boots, nonslip shoes, and uniform components, enabling them to start new jobs immediately. In 2025, we served 45 clients with the work gear they needed to begin employment.
$141,669 spentof which $82,934 as grants26% of program spendingCommunity Case Management: We provide holistic personal care to individuals who are homeless or formerly homeless. Our focus is on securing permanent housing, improving access to physical and mental healthcare, and fostering long-term stability through evidence-based practices. In 2025, we purchased 6 long-range bus tickets to help individuals reunite with their support networks. Our team helped 34 individuals and families move into permanent housing and provided support to keep 10 households stably housed.
$22,426 spentof which $901 as grants4% of program spendingEmergency Winter Shelter: Open Table Ministry offers emergency short-term respite during the coldest months of the year to help keep people safe from extreme weather. In 2025, our team provided 316 individuals with over 89 nights providing 1,611 total nights of shelter beds. Our case managers work closely with guests to coordinate wrap-around services and helped 16 households connect to positive destinations, including permanent housing, long-term shelter, and family reunification.
$226,243 spentof which $30,892 as grants42% of program spendingOffice Hours: We offer walk-in visits where our staff provide a listening ear and assist with navigating Durham's homeless services. In 2025, we served 859 individuals through Office Hours and supported 375 individuals with mail services, using our address as their physical address. To help people overcome barriers to housing and employment, we assisted 189 individuals with obtaining critical identification documents, including 136 State IDs, 115 Social Security Cards, and 76 Birth Certificates.
$148,313 spentof which $12,668 as grants28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $538,651.
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 2019 to 2020, from $167k to $385k (+131%).
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: 2021 45% · 2022 53% · 2023 28% · 2024 23% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Open Table Ministry Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Drew Woten
Executive Director
Board chair
Jennifer Mario
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $29k → $214k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Table Ministry Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
Open Table Ministry Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 Table Ministry Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 64% · 2019 66% · 2020 69% · 2021 64% · 2022 58% · 2023 68% — 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
44% of Open Table Ministry Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Open Table Ministry Inc draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $338k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Open Table Ministry Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Open Table Ministry 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Table Ministry 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 Open Table Ministry Inc?
- Open Table Ministry Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,202,046 to it, the largest being THE MARIO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($785,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Open Table Ministry Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,202,046 in grants to Open Table Ministry Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Open Table Ministry Inc?
- THE MARIO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $785,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Open Table Ministry 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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