Michigan · Nonprofit
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,877 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($54,754). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Southside Community Kitchen does
Mission
To provide well-balanced, nourishing meals to the hungry people of lansing in a caring, dignified environment where they are reassured of their worth as god's unique works of creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Southside Community Kitchen operates a community meal program that provides free, nutritionally balanced meals to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity in the southwest central and greater lansing area. Meals are served monday through thursday to all who seek assistance, without eligibility requirements or barriers to access. Program services are delivered through a combination of four part-time staff and 120 volunteers who support meal preparation, service, and daily operations.the meal program is designed to address both immediate nutritional needs and the broader impacts of poverty and social isolation. In addition to meal service, the organization fosters a welcoming and respectful environment that promotes dignity, connection, and community engagement among guests.the organization also conducts ongoing donor engagement and community outreach activities to support its mission. These efforts include communication with individual donors, businesses, and community partners; volunteer recruitment and coordination; and public awareness initiatives that highlight food insecurity and opportunities for community involvement. Southside Community Kitchen has steadily…
$129,693 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $129,693.
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 2023 to 2024, from $66k to $102k (+55%).
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.
97% of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $23k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 66% · 2019 69% · 2020 78% · 2021 40% · 2022 72% · 2023 61% — 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
43% of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
71% of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $39k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN's revenue grew 92% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN: 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 SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN?
- SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,877 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($54,754). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $134,877 in grants to SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $54,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing