Minnesota · Nonprofit
PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS
PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,014,284 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,937,232). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Partners in Food Solutions does
Mission
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Partners in Food Solutions (pfs) works to strengthen the african food processing sector by identifying high-potential, african-led food businesses and providing them with free-of-cost consulting services powered by employee volunteers from our consortium of world-class food companies -- general mills, cargill, bhler, the hershey company, ardent mills, and the j.m. Smucker company. These employees work virtually and directly with the african companies to help solve specific technical and business challenges. Pfs employs skilled african field staff who partner with impact investors and other local ecosystem organizations in order to further assist african food companies by helping them tap into the larger food processing environment, both regionally and internationally. Pfs operates a series of additional services to surround our primary technical training and consulting offering. An apprenticeship program helps place and support young african food experts at their first industry job. A certification program helps client companies succeed in achieving internationally recognized certifications, leading to better food safety and export capabilities. A finance program helps companies…
$5,908,771 spentof which $500,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,908,771.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.8M to $5.3M (−33%).
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.
98% of PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Kofi Bruce
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $30k → $4.1M.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 61% · 2022 57% · 2023 71% — 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
50% of PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS is better cushioned than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS: 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 PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS?
- PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,014,284 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,937,232). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $8,014,284 in grants to PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,937,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS 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.
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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 18 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