Wisconsin · Nonprofit
REAP FOOD GROUP INC
REAP FOOD GROUP INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $998,246 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($125,544). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $998k
- Net assets
- $468k
What Reap Food Group Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to transform communities, economies and lives through the power of good food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farm-to-school: reap was awarded an innovation collaboration grant with wello, green bay school district, madison metropolitan school district, northeast wisconsin technical college, and madison college to start a scratch cooking pilot in each school district.
$208,684 spent$38,031 earned by the program22% of program spendingFarm-to-business: reap has partnered with community action coalition, pasture and plenty, and fairshare csa coalition to form the foodshed partnership to open a food hub in the madison area. We completed our lfpp grant to build a wholesale marketplace and are now working to onboard farmers and buyers to the website. We also formed a partnership with fairshare and wello to start several farm to institution conferences in wisconsin over the next several years.farm fresh atlas: 2024 marked the first year of the farm fresh atlas of wisconsin as we consolidated the publication into 1 statewide publication rather than having multiple regional publications run by several organizations. We hired two new local food coordinators to help build relationships and support for the atlas in different regions of the state. In 2024 we printed 50,000 copies and each library in wi received 5 copies of the atlas.
$128,972 spent$42,921 earned by the program14% of program spendingCommunity partnerships: reap continues to work with roots4change on our farms to families program and are looking to expand the program. We launched our food truck into the community and formed new partnerships with organizations such as olbrich botanical gardens and american players theater and taliesin by bringing the truck to their festivals. We continue to work on creating a food plan for dane county and planned community engagement sessions to happen in 2025.
$510,356 spent$9,794 earned by the program55% of program spendingReap provides education and outreach to increase awareness of the importance of sustainable farming and the value of a strong local food system in our region. We provide ways for members to be involved in advocacy and organization around issues related to food access and sustainable farming.
$83,443 spent$21,241 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $931,455.
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 2022 to 2023, from $534k to $800k (+50%).
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 15% · 2018 24% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 27% · 2022 34% · 2023 16% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of REAP FOOD GROUP INC’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Philip Kauth
Executive director
Board chair
Marta Staple
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $74k → $120k.
5 of 36 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 REAP FOOD GROUP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
REAP FOOD GROUP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 REAP FOOD GROUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 34% · 2019 22% · 2020 30% · 2021 24% · 2022 35% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“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 REAP FOOD GROUP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
75% of REAP FOOD GROUP INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
REAP FOOD GROUP INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding REAP FOOD GROUP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like REAP FOOD GROUP 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 REAP FOOD GROUP 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 REAP FOOD GROUP INC?
- REAP FOOD GROUP INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $998,246 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($125,544). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAP FOOD GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $998,246 in grants to REAP FOOD GROUP INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAP FOOD GROUP INC?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAP FOOD GROUP INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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