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Slice 325

Slice 325 (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,633 to it, the largest being Rust Family Foundation ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$17k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$431k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Slice 325 does

Mission

Provide free culinary education classes for individuals and families through our five-week program, Creative Sustainability. Our class helps low-income participants maximize their resources in order to create delicious, affordable meals

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. SLICE 325 is a nonprofit organization focused on food justice, sustainability, health education, immersive learning, and community empowerment through culinary education, wellness programming, environmental awareness, and creative educational initiatives.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($812k) Expenses 100 ($383k) Net assets 100 ($749k)2022 Revenue 8 ($63k) Expenses 56 ($213k) Net assets 80 ($598k)2023 Revenue 2 ($17k) Expenses 49 ($189k) Net assets 57 ($431k)
202120222023
Revenue (2)Expenses (49)Net assets (57)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 2022 to 2023, from $600k to $439k (−27%).

$752k
$600k
$439k
202120222023
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.

2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Slice 325’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$429k
’21
−$150k
’22
−$172k
’23
28
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.

202120222023
Listed555
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6 → $5k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
Duke Universityunclassified
$14k
funders
1
1
1
2
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Slice 325’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

Slice 325 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 Slice 325.

49%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Slice 325's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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

’21
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Slice 325 is better cushioned than half of the 2,125 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1033% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve27.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−86% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,125 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Organizations like Slice 325

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 51%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Slice 325: 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 Slice 325?
Slice 325 (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,633 to it, the largest being Rust Family Foundation ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Slice 325 have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,633 in grants to Slice 325, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Slice 325?
Rust Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Slice 325 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 4 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