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Soul Food Project Inc

Soul Food Project Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,814 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($188,288). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$338k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$813k
Net assets
$177k
5/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Soul Food Project Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to foster wellness in our community by increasing access to local food through our urban farms, offering hands on education and creating space for artists. Our most significant activities in 2025 was the operation of our two farm sites and our youth program, Youth

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Youth Grow Indy

    $113,673 spent$94,178 earned by the program
    39% of program spending
  2. Farm

    $87,541 spent$27,992 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  3. Community Education

    $51,231 spent$28,000 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. Apprenticeship

    $42,133 spent$10,064 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $294,578.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($272k) Expenses 100 ($152k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2023 Revenue 140 ($382k) Expenses 226 ($342k) Net assets 129 ($153k)2024 Revenue 174 ($474k) Expenses 239 ($362k) Net assets 223 ($264k)2025 Revenue 124 ($338k) Expenses 280 ($425k) Net assets 149 ($177k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (124)Expenses (280)Net assets (149)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 2023 to 2024, from $153k to $264k (+73%).

$119k
$153k
$264k
$183k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 28% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Soul Food Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$120k
’22
$39k
’23
$112k
’24
−$87k
’25
2.8
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

Danielle Guerin

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed7665
Joined·+3+2+0
No longer listed·421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $35k → $175k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Soul Food Project Inc’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

Soul Food Project Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

75% 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 Soul Food Project Inc.

23%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 41% · 2022 45% · 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.

Where its funders are

Soul Food Project Inc draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.

NY
MA
IN

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

’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k 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

Soul Food Project Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Soul Food Project Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $341k on record.

Federal$341k
grants $341kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$341k

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 Soul Food Project 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 22%Fundraising 8%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Soul Food Project Inc?
Soul Food Project Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,814 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($188,288). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Soul Food Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $812,814 in grants to Soul Food Project Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Soul Food Project Inc?
THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $188,288 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Soul Food Project Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 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