Minnesota · Nonprofit
Second Harvest Northland
Second Harvest Northland (Minnesota) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,556,375 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,383,817). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Second Harvest Northland does
Mission
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Second Harvest Northland's primary program is food banking. As the only "food bank" serving NE Minnesota (St. Louis, Carlton, Lake, Cook, Koochiching, Itasca, Aitkin, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Crow Wing, and Cass counties) and NW Wisconsin (Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron counties), we access nationally and regionally donated and purchased product from manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and growers, for distribution to over 100 agency and community partners (food shelves, on-site meal programs, tribal organizations). During fiscal year 2025, we provided 10 million pounds of food and grocery product, the equivalent of 8.4 million meals, to our agency and community partners. Volunteers are critical to our food bank and its operations. Volunteers contributed 18,632 hours to our food bank program during fiscal year 2025, which was the equivalent of 8.95 full-time positions at our organization.
$23,041,262 spentof which $21,052,452 as grants$1,471,870 earned by the program91% of program spendingOur Food Shelf is a program operated by Second Harvest Northland to provide food directly to people experiencing hunger in the Duluth and Grand Rapids, MN area. During fiscal year 2025, we provided food shelf service directly to in-need children, adults and seniors resulting in over 1.7 million meals. Our Food Shelf Programs are operated almost entirely by volunteers. During fiscal year 2025, volunteers contributed 3,961 hours of service, equivalent to 1.90 full-time positions at our organization.
$154,052 spentof which $13,051 as grants1% of program spendingOur Nutrition for Seniors Program (Commodity Supplemental Food Assistance Program) is a federal commodity food program administered by the Minnesota Department of Health and implemented locally by Second Harvest Northland. During fiscal year 2025, we provided commodity food boxes directly to in-need seniors resulting in over 408,688 meals. Our Nutrition for Seniors Program relies heavily on volunteers. During fiscal year 2025, volunteers contributed 2,671 hours of service, equivalent to 1.28 full-time positions at our organization.
$1,240,013 spentof which $1,057,688 as grants5% of program spendingOur Mobile Food Pantry Programs are operated by Second Harvest Northland to provide food directly to people experiencing hunger in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin communities with a high level of need and low food resources. During fiscal year 2025, we provided pantry service directly to in-need children, adults and seniors resulting in over 751,818 meals. Our Mobile Food Pantry Programs are operated almost entirely by volunteers. During fiscal year 2025, volunteers contributed 796 hours of service, equivalent to .38 full-time positions at our organization.
$871,716 spentof which $27,500 as grants3% of program spendingOur BackPack Program is operated by Second Harvest Northland, in partnership with regional schools, to provide food to children in need on weekends. During fiscal year 2025, we provided food to children resulting in over 106,529 meals. During fiscal year 2025, volunteers contributed 1,865 hours of service, equivalent to .90 full-time positions at our organization.Our School Pantry Program is operated by Second Harvest Northland, in partnership with regional schools, to provide out-of-school food to children. During fiscal year 2025, we provided food to children resulting in over 31,285 meals.
$122,763 spentof which $47,666 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,429,806.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $23M (+58%).
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: 2019 17% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Shaye Moris
CEO & President
Board chair
Kate Dean
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $166k → $1.8M.
18 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Second Harvest Northland’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
Second Harvest Northland has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 Second Harvest Northland.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 51% · 2023 48% — 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
55% of Second Harvest Northland's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
Second Harvest Northland draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Organizations like Second Harvest Northland
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
94% 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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Second Harvest Northland: 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 Second Harvest Northland?
- Second Harvest Northland (Minnesota) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,556,375 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,383,817). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Second Harvest Northland have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $9,556,375 in grants to Second Harvest Northland, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Second Harvest Northland?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $3,383,817 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Second Harvest Northland 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.
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 73 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