Minnesota · Nonprofit
SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25
SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25 (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being EVERY MEAL ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $73k
What Spirit of Matthew 25 does
Mission
Spirit of Matthew 25 is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, the purpose of Spirit of Matthew 25 is to renew hope through generosity and love by offering food to people in need in the region surrounding Coon Rapids, Minnesota, while reducing the environmental impact of food waste.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our program goal is to give away food to people in need while reducing the impact of food waste on our environment. In 2025, Spirit of Matthew 25 donated $1.51 million dollars' worth of food and supplies to 36,968 people with the help of 14,062 volunteer hours. The food was acquired via food rescue from our food donation network. In addition to 116 food giveaway events, Spirit of Matthew 25 delivered food monthly to two subsidized apartment complexes, packed culturally relevant food in the backpacks of kids at Mississippi Elementary during the school year, provided snacks to three addiction recovery groups, and provided food and hygiene supplies to the Dignity Pantry at Coon Rapids High School. We also offered 16 community garden plots to the public and had our own garden space to produce food for our giveaways. Our community garden program allowed us to provide 2,300 extra servings of fresh produce at our food giveaway events. 98% of our food is rescued food. We had 52% more visits in 2025 than in 2024. Our food rescue and composting efforts resulted in the avoidance of 628 metric tons of CO2e from being released into the environment. This has an effect equivalent to removing 149…
$59,453 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,453.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $64k to $73k (+14%).
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.
100% of SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Sue Lehrer
President & Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Against its field
SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25 runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25: 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 SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25?
- SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25 (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being EVERY MEAL ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25 have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25?
- EVERY MEAL is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRIT OF MATTHEW 25 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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