Kansas · Nonprofit
PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE
PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,790 to it, the largest being TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($586,560). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $742k
- Net assets
- $480k
What Project Topeka Food Drive does
Mission
Distribution of food to local agencies
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Both non-perishable food and monetary donations are collected under the Project Topeka Food Drive name and distributed to agencies depending on their statistical food usage.
$134,410 spentof which $38,500 as grants100% of program spendingWeekend food bags are given to three local schools every week during the school year. The schools are: -randolph elementary - estimated enrollment 370 -lowman hill elementary - estimated enrollment 330 -highland park central elementary - estimated enrollment 330 all are usd 501 schools. We provide roughly 1,050 bags per week for 36 weeks of the school year. Yearly spend in 2025 was around 140,000.00. Food is purchased from seabrook apple market or purchased by our board members from sam's club or local grocery stores. Board members are then reimbursed for the purchases. The program has been in place since 2017.
Both non-perishable food and monetary donations are collected under the Project Topeka Food Drive name and distributed to agencies depending on their statistical food usage.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $134,410.
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 $270k to $415k (+54%).
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: 2017 0% · 2019 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $24k → $136k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE’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
PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 59% · 2019 77% · 2020 62% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 87% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
97% of PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $717k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE
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 Kansas
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE: 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 PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE?
- PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,790 to it, the largest being TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($586,560). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $741,790 in grants to PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE?
- TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $586,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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