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SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC

SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,304,712 to it, the largest being LELAND J & DOROTHY H OLSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($750,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$1.9M
28/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Saving Grace Perishable Food Rescue Inc does

Mission

Rescue and distribute perishable food to increase overall support for our communities while also creating a healthy, more sustainable future.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Saving grace provides a professionally coordinated, perishable foodlogistics and distribution operation. Using refrigerated food trucks and professional drivers/food ambassador, they rescue excess perishablefood from local food vendors including grocery stores, wholesalers,caterers, restaurants, convenient stores, cafeterias, and communitygardens. They then match the donated healthy food and deliver it thesame day, free of charge, to 501(c)(3) nonprofits such as pantries,shelters, after-school programs, and senior centers to feed theirhungry clients. Also working with environmental partners to engage ourcommunity with the awareness that close to 40% of food produced isthrown away and the impact that has on our environment and food equity.

    $3,441,964 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,441,964.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($658k)2018 Revenue 137 ($2.3M) Expenses 128 ($2.0M) Net assets 145 ($955k)2019 Revenue 156 ($2.6M) Expenses 158 ($2.4M) Net assets 170 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 208 ($3.4M) Expenses 195 ($3.0M) Net assets 248 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 224 ($3.7M) Expenses 244 ($3.8M) Net assets 240 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 173 ($2.9M) Expenses 166 ($2.6M) Net assets 294 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 137 ($2.3M) Expenses 156 ($2.4M) Net assets 291 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 137 ($2.3M) Expenses 188 ($2.9M) Net assets 225 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 251 ($4.2M) Expenses 243 ($3.7M) Net assets 290 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (251)Expenses (243)Net assets (290)Peer revenue range

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 $1.1M to $1.7M (+47%).

$663k
$967k
$1.1M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.5M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
’17
$297k
’18
$162k
’19
$440k
’20
−$54k
’21
$320k
’22
−$130k
’23
−$630k
’24
$424k
’25
4.4
months of
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

Lenli Corbett Kountze

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Andrew Wong

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed10101098810910
Joined·+1+2+1+0+0+6+0+2
No longer listed·12210411
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $171k → $469k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Reverb Incnew
$12k
funders
6
6
7
14
17
23
18
23
16
1

10 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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

SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

39% 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 SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC.

23%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 43% · 2020 27% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% — 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

71% of SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

ME
IA
PA
NE
DE
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $707k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE 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 Nebraska

Food Bank for the Heartland80%Table of Grace Mobile Food Pantry75%Table Grace Ministries75%Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha75%Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership74%Bpr-Cpr Inc74%Southeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership74%Community Pantry & Emerg Srvc Inc74%

Nationally

Food Rescue US Inc84%Save the Food82%Loaves and Fishes82%Food Helpers82%Metro Food Rescue81%412 Food Rescue Inc81%Spoonfuls80%Mississippi Food Network Inc80%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 3%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC?
SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,304,712 to it, the largest being LELAND J & DOROTHY H OLSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($750,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,304,712 in grants to SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC?
LELAND J & DOROTHY H OLSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 43 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