Wisconsin · Nonprofit
POINTER PANTRY
POINTER PANTRY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,275 to it, the largest being GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Pointer Pantry does
Mission
The purpose of Pointer Pantry is to provide students enrolled in the Mineral Point Unified School District with means to acquire food and other basic necessities when not in school weekends holidays and during summer vacation These students are confi
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In the 2021-2022 year school year Pointer Pantry served 43 students Pointer Pantry is an all volunteer organization We are proud of the local support for our program Groups and individuals have sponsored fundraisers unsolicited donating a portion of their proceeds to Pointer Pantry Less than one percent of our funding goes to administration and overhead We are a 100 volunteer organization with 99 of our resources used to pay for food vouchers for our participants
$287 spentof which $31,620 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $287.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $227.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 POINTER 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
POINTER PANTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 59% · 2021 77% · 2022 57% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of POINTER PANTRY's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $649 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
POINTER PANTRY receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,072 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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In Wisconsin
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POINTER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds POINTER PANTRY?
- POINTER PANTRY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,275 to it, the largest being GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POINTER PANTRY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $7,275 in grants to POINTER PANTRY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POINTER PANTRY?
- GORDON FLESCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POINTER PANTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 6 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